Zero-point Fields, Gravitation and New Physics
نویسنده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Gravitation of the Casimir Effect and the Cosmological Non-Constant
Whereas the total energy in zero-point fluctuations of the particle physics vacuum gives rise to the cosmological constant problem, differences in the vacuum give rise to real physical phenomena, such as the Casimir effect. Hence we consider the zero-point energy bound between two parallel conducting plates — proxy for a solid slice of cosmological constant — as a convenient laboratory in which...
متن کاملPhysics of the Zero-point Field: Implications for Inertia, Gravitation and Mass
Previous studies of the physics of a classical electromagnetic zero-point field (ZPF) have implicated it as a possible basis for a number of quantum phenomena. Recent work implies that the ZPF may play an even more significant role as the source of inertia and gravitation of matter. Furthermore, this close link between electromagnetism and inertia suggests that it may be fruitful to investigate...
متن کاملThe Zero - Point Field and the NASA Challenge to Create the Space Drive
This NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop seeks to explore concepts that could someday enable interstellar travel. The effective superluminal motion proposed by Alcubierre (1994) to be a possibility owing to theoretically allowed space-time metric distortions within general relativity has since been shown by Pfenning and Ford (1997) to be physically unattainable. A number of other hypo...
متن کاملThe Weight of Vacuum Fluctuations
We examine the gravitational properties of Lamb shift energies. Using available experimental data we show that these energies have a standard gravitational behavior at the level of ∼ 10. We are motivated by the point of view that Lamb shift energies may be interpreted as a consequence of vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. If this is the case, our result is a test of the gravitati...
متن کاملOn the Gravitational Field a Suggestion about a Possible Experimental Research
After a preliminary discussion of the relevance of the field nature of grav-itation interaction, both for the fundamental interaction of particles and the topology of space time, a method is proposed to produce and detect a dynamical gravitational field, allowing the determination of the order of magnitude of its propagation velocity. From the actual point of view of the physicist the structure...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000