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@ Neox, that isn't the arrival problem I'm talking about. Here: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...nihilating-whole-star-systems-when-you-arrive http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MatterOfMatter-revised-final.pdf

Hello, As it takes time and attention to a problem before papers are produced, it is certainly plausible that a feasible refutation exists that has not been identified and produced in the literature. That refutation need not necessarily be an alternative version of general relativity; it could...

Upon reading the Australian paper, I've noticed that they only use the bubble configuration initially proposed by Alcubierre, which as I understand requires far too much energy to be possible to implement. The later bubble configuration proposed by White, which is instead a ring, apparently is...

Ok, there is ambiguity in this area. A wikipedia article on Van der Walls suggests that each originate from vacuum energy: "It can be shown that van der Waals forces are of the same origin as the Casimir effect, arising from quantum interactions with the zero-point field.[2]" From...

I'm interested in developments concerning the 'Alcubierre Warp Drive', specifically, the arrival problem: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/140635-the-downside-of-warp-drives-annihilating-whole-star-systems-when-you-arrive established in this paper, by a group from Australia...

Well, you cannot patent an idea, you must patent a process. So, you've not yet created a public disclosure, if you were to reveal a particular method or process, hypothetical or otherwise, that would constitute a public disclosure. To create a process to do something, you will need to do it...

The wikipedia page had a formula for finding the force between two plates as a function of distance, but not one for energy density. Rather than trying to derive it myself I was hoping someone more experienced with it could provide a correct formula for this. Demystifier, this sounds like it...

ok, thanks

Look, there are other effects of vacuum fluctuations, not just the Casimir Effect. Hawking radiation for example. It isn't a very contentious issue in the field. It's basically accepted. I'm not really interested in arguing. If you don't want to believe in vacuum fluctuations, fine. I'm just...

I was aware of the paper that I referred you to before the conversation, but I was not aware of the paper you referred me to. But as far as I know, it's been pretty well established that the Casimir force is due to vacuum fluctuations. I'm not sure how the Croatian physicist came to his...

You can ask him ask him if you wish. I'm not really interested for now; I'm mostly just here for the calculation.

That paper is definitely a minority opinion. Also, I believe that it is disproven due to the fact that the casimir effect can be reversed: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7226/full/nature07610.html If the Casimir force was caused by van der walls forces, I do not believe it would be...

Hello, I would like to know how to calculate the negative energy density in the region between two Casimir plates, given a distance between two parallel plates. Thanks, much appreciated!

I asked Dr. Philbin at the University of St. Andrews about the reverse Casimir effect. He gave an excellent description: " One of the problems with trying to have a conceptual understanding of Casimir forces is that the calculations using the standard Lifgarbagez theory (which predicts...

I got it figured out. There were several other equations I needed. Thanks for looking at it.