Survey and examination of an electromagnetic vacuum accelerating effect and its astrophysical consequences

Rueda, Alfonso

doi:10.1007/bf00212755

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“…This therefore prevents the acceleration of electrons to ultrahigh CR energies. This decorrelation does not take place in the case of the much more massive and sturdy protons that, if allowed, can be carried up to the highest CR energies beyond 10 20 eV [9].…”

Section: The Zero-point Field Acceleration Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…There is a paucity of known mechanisms by which the vacuum might yield some of its energy to steadily contribute to an accelerated expansion of the universe. Recently however within a different astrophysical context a mechanism that could accomplish this was proposed [9,10,11]. Rueda, Haisch and Cole [11] investigated a mechanism that could account for the phenomenon of Cosmic Voids [12].…”

Section: Accelerated Expansion and Cosmic Voidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been proposed [10,11] that the ZPF of traditional quantum electrodynamics (QED), via a wellknown mechanism (discussed below), is responsible for the effect. This mechanism seems also to be involved in contributing to other astrophysical phenomena: the X-ray and gamma-ray backgrounds [13] and the acceleration of cosmic rays (CR), particularly at very high energies, E ≥ 10 17 eV (see [9] for an extensive review). It is important to emphasize that when the ZPF is applied as an energizing entity to produce the expansion associated with the Cosmic Voids, automatically an expansion of the universe itself must necessarily be produced.…”

Section: Accelerated Expansion and Cosmic Voidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This temperature-density anticorrelation is what occurs in the Voids and it is also what is happening in many places throughout IGS. Moreover, such a distribution would be a natural outcome of the ZPF acceleration mechanism when combined with ordinary radiative collisional cooling [9].…”

Section: Accelerated Expansion and Cosmic Voidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Electromagnetic zero point field as active energy source in the intergalactic medium

Rueda

Sunahata

Haisch

1999

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

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For over twenty years the possibility that the electromagnetic zero point field (ZPF) may actively accelerate electromagnetically interacting particles in regions of extremely low particle density (as those extant in intergalactic space (IGS) with n ≤ 1 particle m −3 ) has been studied and analyzed. This energizing phenomenon has been one of the few contenders for acceleration of cosmic rays (CR), particularly at ultrahigh energies. The recent finding by the AGASA collaboration (Phys. Rev. Lett., 81, 1163Lett., 81, , 1998) that the CR energy spectrum does not display any signs of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off (that should be present if these CR particles were indeed generated in localized ultrahigh energies CR sources, as e.g., quasars and other highly active galactic nuclei), may indicate the need for an acceleration mechanism that is distributed throughout IGS as is the case with the ZPF. Other unexplained phenomena that receive an explanation from this mechanism are the generation of X-ray and gamma-ray backgrounds and the existence of Cosmic Voids. However recently, a statistical mechanics kind of challenge to the classical (not the quantum) version of the zero-point acceleration mechanism has been posed (de la Peña and Cetto, The Quantum Dice, 1996). Here we briefly examine the consequences of this challenge and a prospective resolution.

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Section: The Zero-point Field Acceleration Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Accelerated Expansion and Cosmic Voidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Accelerated Expansion and Cosmic Voidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Accelerated Expansion and Cosmic Voidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Electromagnetic zero point field as active energy source in the intergalactic medium

Rueda

Sunahata

Haisch

1999

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

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“…Cole and Puthoff used stochastic electrodynamics to examine the process of removing energy from the vacuum fluctuations at zero temperature from the viewpoint of thermodynamics and showed there is no violation of the laws of thermodynamics [40]. In the same spirit, Rueda has suggested that very high energy particles observed in space may derive their kinetic energy from a long term acceleration due to the stochastic vacuum field [41]. In a careful analysis, Cole has shown that this process of energy transfer from the vacuum field to kinetic energy of the particles does not violate the laws of thermodynamics [42].…”

Section: B Comments On the Possible Use Of Vacuum Fluctuations As Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Gedanken Spacecraft that Operates Using the Quantum Vacuum (Dynamic Casimir Effect)

Maclay

Forward²

2004

Foundations of Physics

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Conventional rockets are not a suitable technology for deep space missions. Chemical rockets require a very large weight of propellant, travel very slowly compared to light speed, and require significant energy to maintain operation over periods of years. For example, the 722 kg Voyager spacecraft required 13,600 kg of propellant to launch and would take about 80,000 years to reach the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, about 4.3 light years away. There have been various attempts at developing ideas on which one might base a spacecraft that would permit deep space travel, such as spacewarps. In this paper we consider another suggestion from science fiction and explore how the quantum vacuum might be utilized in the creation of a novel spacecraft. The spacecraft is based on the dynamic Casimir effect, in which electromagnetic radiation is emitted when an uncharged mirror is properly accelerated in the vacuum. The radiative reaction produces a dissipative force on the mirror that tends to resist the acceleration of the mirror. This force can be used to accelerate a spacecraft attached to the mirror. We also show that, in principal, one could obtain the power to operate the accelerated mirror in such a spacecraft using energy extracted from the quantum vacuum using the standard Casimir effect with a parallel plate geometry. Unfortunately the method as currently conceived generates a miniscule thrust, and is no more practical than a spacewarp, yet it does provide an interesting demonstration of our current understanding of the physics of the quantized electromagnetic field in vacuum. * Electronic address: jordanmaclay@quantumfields.com

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Connections Between Thermodynamics, Statostocal Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, and Special Astrophysical Processes

Cole

2002

Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale

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Survey and examination of an electromagnetic vacuum accelerating effect and its astrophysical consequences

Cited by 13 publications

References 144 publications

Electromagnetic zero point field as active energy source in the intergalactic medium

Electromagnetic zero point field as active energy source in the intergalactic medium

A Gedanken Spacecraft that Operates Using the Quantum Vacuum (Dynamic Casimir Effect)

Connections Between Thermodynamics, Statostocal Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, and Special Astrophysical Processes

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