Casimir Self-locomotion
Thrust on a Microchip!!!
I am proposing a new kind of Casimir cavity. Instead of two moving plates, it
consists of two stationary plates that are held in place by a "floor" the one
side of the floor-surface is inside the flux-depletion zone of the Cavity where
it experiences a low flux pressure. The other side of the floor is outside the
cavity where the Virtual Photon Flux Pressure is high; therefore, there is a net
force acting on the cavity at all times!
Grooves or arrays of holes can be formed into one side of a rigid plate to form
an array of these cavities.
Resonance:
Now there is a trick to making this actually work because if the metal walls of
the cavities are too thick then the remaining flux will form standing waves that
store energy and actually increase the flux pressure inside the cavity, thus
negating the flux reduction inside the cavity; however, we can fashion the holes
or grooves out of non-conductive, non-magnetically permeable materials, then
coat the entire thing with just the right thickness of metal so that the walls
of the metal are transparent top to the smaller photons that are allowed in the
cavity, then they will not resonate within
the cavities and there will be no standing waves and no extra pressure.
Let me know if you'd like me to send you a copy of my paper with illustrations!
Wm. Scott Smith scott712 (at) hotmail (dot) com