Phys. Rev. A 40, 4857–4862 (1989)Source of vacuum electromagnetic zero-point energySee Also: Erratum Received 24 May 1989; published in the issue dated November 1989 Nature provides us with two alternatives for the origin of electromagnetic zero-point energy (ZPE): existence by fiat as part of the boundary conditions of the universe, or generation by the (quantum-fluctuation) motion of charged particles that constitute matter. A straightforward calculation of the latter possibility has been carried out in which it is assumed that the ZPE spectrum (field distribution) drives particle motion, and that the particle motion in turn generates the ZPE spectrum, in the form of a self-regenerating cosmological feedback cycle. The result is the appropriate frequency-cubed spectral distribution of the correct order of magnitude, thus indicating a dynamic-generation process for the ZPE fields. © 1989 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.40.4857
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.40.4857
PACS:
98.70.Vc, 11.30.Na, 05.40.+j, 03.65.Sq
See AlsoComment: Emilio Santos, Comment on ‘‘Source of vacuum electromagnetic zero-point energy’’, Phys. Rev. A 44, 3383 (1991). Erratum: H. E. Puthoff, Erratum: Source of vacuum electromagnetic zero-point energy, Phys. Rev. A 41, 2902 (1990). Reply: H. E. Puthoff, Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Source of vacuum electromagnetic zero-point energy ’ ’’, Phys. Rev. A 44, 3385 (1991). |
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