Friday, July 21, 2006

In search of unifying time and energy - Part I

Okay, I know this sounds VERY warped and corny, but this is what my hypothesis is, so don't shoot me.

Had been meaning to write this for a long long time. A few months ago, I came across two writeups -

1) The N-Machine
2) Theory of Electrogravity

Now the first observation is quite amazing, since it destroys our fundamental thermodynamical law. That of energy conservation. In simple words, what they (De Palma primarily) did was, they took a magnet, put it in between two oppositely charged insulated plates and rotated it in a Gryoscope, with the help of energy input from a motor. And what did he find? FIVE times the energy given in, was obtained out! Incredible huh?

The explanation given is, in some ways, consistant with the findings of Casimir et al. It says that any energy released by any object, is, not inherent from the object, but of the spatial energy flowing through the object. Hmm...so does this mean, that space is not empty? Ether eh? Well, not really. Something called Quantum Vaccuum Fluctuations has been conceptualised to explain this phenomenon. It is said, that there are random, rapid bursts of energy in space, which happens at best the planckian scale. Energy simply appears and disappears, out of nowhere and into nowhere. Now, although this violates the law 'Energy can neither be created nor destroyed', it does abide by the law of conservation of energy. But then how does the N Machine violate it? Well, if there is no field that would tap this energy, then it'd be fine. But here, the N-Machine creates such a field which taps this energy and releases it.

What Casimir did in 1948 was also quite interesting. He proposed the existance of a hitherto unkown force field between particles at sub micron levels. This was supposed to be due to the interaction of quantised points in space acting as virtual particles, and the QVF. He took two dielectric plates, bound them over under two opposing EM fields in vaccum. What happened was interesting. The two dielectrics crashed into each other! He thus corraborated the existance of Zero Point Energy.

What is Zero Point Energy? Next installment tomorrow.......