Reducing Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels
T. E. Bearden
Dependence on fossil fuels is a direct result of continuing serious flaws in the
classical electrodynamics (CED) model used for electrical power system design and
production. CED eliminates what actually powers an electrical circuit, and this error is
still propagated by the scientific community nearly half a century after the discovery of
broken symmetry in physics. The asymmetry of opposite charges means that every
dipolarity extracts energy from the vacuum and outputs a continuous stream of
observable EM energy. By correcting the flawed CED model and its resulting electrical
power technology, a permanent solution to the energy crisis is possible, significantly
reducing the usage of fossil fuels and nuclear power systems.
The source charge and its associated surrounding virtual charges of opposite sign in
the vacuum comprise a dipolar ensemble. By its asymmetry, this dipolar ensemble
absorbs virtual photon energy from the vacuum, transduces it into real observable EM
energy, and continuously emits observable photons radially in all directions The emitted
energy establishes and replenishes the associated fields and potentials expanding
toward infinity at light speed. This solves the long-vexing problem of how the charge
produces its associated EM fields and potentials and what furnishes the input energy.
In classical power engineering and CED, the charge's absorption of disordered virtual
photons from the seething vacuum is excluded. The CED model assumes that every
EM field, potential, and joule of energy is and has been freely created by its associated
source charge(s) from nothing at all—in total violation of the conservation of energy law.
We correct this erroneous assumption, in accord with Leyton's hierarchies of symmetry
and object-oriented geometry, which yield the iteratively self-ordering universe
demonstrated experimentally by the source charge. Substantial implications for
electrodynamics, thermodynamics, and electrical power engineering are discussed.
All EM energy in an electrical circuit or power system comes directly from the local
vacuum, via the proven asymmetry of the charges as dipole ensembles. With significant
effort and funding focused in the "energy from the vacuum" area, the escalating energy
crisis and much of the biospheric pollution crisis can be stopped in its tracks and
permanently solved for less than the cost of a single major power plant.
Speaking in Science on behalf of the scientific community, Editor Emeritus Philip
Abelson has clearly stated the case for expanded governmental initiatives to lessen fossil
fuel dependence (1). However, the cause of the critical worldwide energy situation and
fossil fuel dependence is a long-standing problem in the scientific community itself, not in
the government. Until the scientific community corrects this fundamental problem, the
energy crisis will escalate as worldwide needs for energy and fuels steadily increase.
Present design and engineering of electrical power systems is archaic, starting with the
aged Maxwell-Heaviside (MH) model that electrical power engineers use. The model
does not include some major physics discoveries since Maxwell's seminal 1865 paper (2)
and particularly since the final regauging by Lorentz (3,4,5) of the Heaviside-Gibbs vector
truncation. To explain the problem, we contrast some erroneous MH model assumptions
to what has been proven in particle physics since the MH model was formed. The
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comparison provides a quite different perspective of where EM energy comes from and
how every EM circuit and device is powered and always has been powered. In any
electrical power system, all EM fields and potentials—and their energy—comes directly
from the local vacuum, via the asymmetry of the source charges.
Surprising Assumptions of the MH Model
For its fundamental environment, the MH model assumes a flat spacetime (falsified since
1915 by general relativity) and an inert vacuum (falsified for decades by particle physics).
Since it assumes force fields in space and force requires mass as a component, it also still
assumes the material ether, and has done so since its inception in Maxwell's theory (6).
Not an equation was changed after the Michelson-Morley experiments falsified the notion
of the material ether prior to 1900. From these assumptions alone, the MH model is at best
an approximation, and not at all a definitive model.
Specifically, the active local vacuum and the active curvatures of local spacetime
comprise a special "active environment" of the Maxwellian system, constantly exchanging
energy with every charge in the system. The MH model falsely assumes that this external
general relativistic vacuum environment is inert, hence arbitrarily discards all permissible
EM systems which would receive and utilize extra energy from it. In short, the model
discards all "electrical windmills" taking their energy from free "electromagnetic winds"
in their general relativistic vacuum environment. It does permit "electrical windmills"
such as the solar cell with coefficient of performance (COP) of COP = , but only
because the energy input is conventional rather than from the vacuum.
The MH model also assumes that all EM fields, potentials, and their energy come from
their associated source charge(s). With its assumed inert environment, the MH model
assumes that this EM field energy and EM potential energy generated by the source
charge(s) is freely created from nothing at all, violating the conservation of energy law.
This embarrassing MH assumption has been concealed for some decades, although
occasionally begrudgingly acknowledged. E.g., Sen (7) stated it this way:
"The connection between the field and its source has always been and still
is the most difficult problem in classical and quantum electrodynamics."
In the 35 years since Sen's statement, no work on this fundamental CEM problem has
been done, and the problem has been successfully "scrubbed" from the textbooks, hiding it
from students. The scientific community continues to propagate modeling all EM fields,
potentials, and energy as freely created from nothing at all.
Clarifying the Source Charge Problem
For clarification we introduce a gedanken experiment. One suddenly forms a source
charge at the origin of a radial line of regularly spaced measurement instruments spread
across a substantial distance, and from the charge one then measures along that single
radial a steady outward flow of EM energy (a flow of real, observable photons). One sees
each instrument suddenly read with the sudden appearance of the field and the potential,
and then the readings continuously remain thereafter at each point. One shows by
experimental measurement that an observable continuous EM energy flow is emitted from
the source charge in all directions at light speed, forming and continuously replenishing
the associated EM fields and potentials expanding from the charge across the universe.
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Also there is no observable EM energy being input to the charge, since none can be
measured. Hence either the conservation of energy law is experimentally falsified by
every charge, EM field, EM potential, and joule of EM energy in the universe, or a
continuous input of nonobservable (virtual), nonclassical EM energy is furnished to the
source charge, provided by the active external environment. Either one gives up the
conservation of energy law entirely, or one must include in the CED and MH model the
active vacuum and its nonobservable (virtual) input energy to the source charge.
Accepting the conservation of energy law falsifies the MH and CED models' implicit
assumption that no nonobservable energy is received and utilized in a circuit or electrical
power system. Long ignored and perpetuated by the scientific community, this false
assumption has been and is the real cause of the escalating worldwide energy crisis and
the increasing use of fossil fuels.
Solution to the Source Charge Problem
We published the solution to the above source charge problem in 2000 (8), and in 2002
(9,10), taking it directly from particle physics.
The basis for the solution is the proven broken symmetry of opposite charges, such as
for any dipolarity. Wu et al. (11) experimentally proved broken symmetry (including the
asymmetry of opposite charges) in 1957, very quickly after Lee and Yang strongly
predicted it (12,13). Because of the revolutionary impact on physics, Lee and Yang were
awarded the Nobel Prize in December of the same year, 1957, at unprecedented speed.
From quantum field theory, in the local vacuum the "isolated" source charge is
surrounded by clustering virtual charges of opposite sign. Hence the source charge
ensemble is actually a special dipolarity, and it must express and obey the asymmetry of
opposite charges. This asymmetry means that the source charge ensemble continuously
absorbs virtual photons from the seething vacuum, transduces (coherently integrates) the
virtual energy into observable (quantum-sized) energy, and re-emits the energy as
observable photons radiated in all directions—establishing and continuously replenishing
the associated expanding EM fields and potentials, precisely consistent with our gedanken
experiment. As T. D. Lee stated (14):
"Since nonobservables imply symmetry, any discovery of asymmetry must
imply some observable. The experiment of Wu, Ambler, Hayward, Hoppes
and Hudson… established the asymmetry between the positive and
negative signs of electricity."
The emitted energy, of course, does establish and continuously replenish the associated
macroscopic EM fields and potentials and their energy (15), as the MH model assumes.
What differs is that there is a proven nonobservable energy input to the source charge, of
nonclassical form (16,17,18,19,20), that the MH model neglects.
With the source charge problem solved, the conservation of energy law is saved after
all, but the MH model itself is falsified. The solution—based on the broken symmetry of
opposite charges—contradicts two of the fundamental assumptions of MH theory and
electrical engineering—that the local general relativistic vacuum environment can be
neglected, and that all EM fields, potentials, and joules of energy are freely created from
nothing. Therefore MH, CED, and electrical engineering models require significant
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correction and extension since their contradiction is already experimentally proven in
particle physics.
Impact on Thermodynamics
The solution to the source charge problem is also a change to classical thermodynamics.
The change to thermodynamics is so dramatic that we certainly do not attempt such
formidable work in this paper. Instead, we only indicate some of the important
assumptions which must be changed.
The charge continuously consumes positive entropy (of the disordered virtual photons
it absorbs from the vacuum) at one level and converts it to negative entropy (the increase
or delta in organized observable potential energy and field energy of the charge itself) at a
higher level, falsifying the present Second Law. Then broken symmetry (by excitation
decay) at the new (observable) level results in the charge emitting the converted extra
energy as real observable EM energy in its ever expanding and continuously replenished
associated fields and potentials.
However, in turn this latest broken symmetry has also negentropically generated yet
another higher level symmetry—the macroscopic deterministic ordering of the associated
intensities of the fields and potentials, with the intensities appearing and ordered as a
function of the radial distance and of the time from formation of the charge.
The charge is a nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) system in its interaction with the
vacuum. The charge converts positive entropy at the virtual particle level in the vacuum
to a new symmetry and negative entropy at the next higher level, the quantum microscopic
beginning of the macroscopic domain. We have nominated the source charge as the first
physical example of such negentropic systems—shown theoretically by Evans and
Rondoni (21)—where a NESS system produces entropy that is initially negative and
thereafter continuously decreases toward negative infinity as time passes.
Leyton's Extension to Klein Geometry Is Required
To adequately explain this remarkable iterative result where a broken symmetry at one
level automatically generates negative entropy and a new symmetry at a higher level, a
new geometry and extended group theoretic procedures are required. Fortunately Leyton
(22) has already written the necessary extended object-oriented geometry and the
necessary group procedures, extending Klein's geometry (23) and replacing Klein's
Erlanger project (24), which has driven much of physics since 1872. Klein geometry is
only a subset of Leyton's geometry. In Leyton's geometry, hierarchies of symmetry
emerge where a broken symmetry at one level generates a new symmetry at the next
higher level. Further, the new symmetry enfolds all information as to the lower
symmetries and asymmetries, so it is internally ordered and none of the lower symmetries
and asymmetries are lost (25).
For the source charge, Leyton's effect generates all the successively higher symmetries
from their broken symmetries at lower levels, extending from the virtual particle flux
exchange between vacuum and charge to the formation of deterministic macroscopic EM
fields and potentials reaching across the entire macroscopic universe.
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The Source Charge's External Parameters (Fields and Potentials)
Remarkably, by obeying Leyton geometry, the source charge generates its own
characteristically ordered external parameters, contrary to other thermodynamic systems.
The charge is an entropy-to-negentropy converter, converting disordered vacuum virtual
energy to organized observable energy—a negentropic process violating the present
Second Law's assumption that all processes progress with time to yield the same or
increased entropy.
Violations of the Second Law at micron size levels and for up to two seconds have
previously been experimentally proven by Wang, Sevick, Mittag, Searles, and Evans (26).
From the source charge, the dissipation of emitted observable photons is from an alreadyordered external parameter—the excitation potential produced on the charge. The
envelope of the emission (i.e., the external parameters, being the fields and potentials) is
deterministic, a requirement for obeying the negentropic NESS system requirement shown
by Evans and Rondoni (21).
Solving the Puzzling Asymmetry Problem of Thermodynamics
With the Leyton process, the generation of a higher level symmetry from a broken
symmetry at a lower level is a negative entropy process, at least for any system generating
its own characteristic external parameters.
The new geometry is self-organizing, also solving the long-vexing problem of how
macroscopic order can arise from random microscopic disorder. Mere integration cannot
do it, since randomness does not integrate to order. Without further discussion, we point
out that Leyton's geometry has a form of hidden variables—the enfolded information at
any given level of all the lower levels of symmetry and asymmetry. The potential analogy
to Bohm's hidden variable theory is striking (27).
The Leyton self-generating hierarchies of symmetry appear to resolve the fundamental
problem of thermodynamics—its asymmetry. The asymmetry problem is succinctly
described by Price (28):
"A century or so ago, Ludwig Boltzmann and other physicists attempted to
explain the temporal asymmetry of the second law of thermodynamics.
…the hard-won lesson of that endeavor—a lesson still commonly
misunderstood—was that the real puzzle of thermodynamics is not why
entropy increases with time, but why it was ever so low in the first place."
At its formative inception a century or more ago, classical thermodynamics
inadvertently eliminated half the thermodynamics of the universe—the universal
negentropic Leyton interactions where broken symmetry at any level automatically
generates a new symmetry (and a new ordering) at the next higher level. Indeed, negative
entropy continually arises from positive entropy by the actions of a self-ordering universe
(29), as shown by Leyton.
Some Other Thermodynamics Problems
The present thermodynamics definitions of "open" system and "closed" system are in
error, and again can only be approximations.
A closed system has been defined in thermodynamics as one which does not exchange
mass across its boundary, but can and does exchange energy. However, any change of
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energy of the system automatically changes its mass, by the simple Einstein equation for
mass-energy. In the modern view, energy and mass are two sides of the same coin. So a
"closed" system changing its energy also changes its mass, contradicting the conventional
definition. A closed system should logically be defined as one in which neither mass nor
energy exchanges across the boundary, but that is already given as the definition of an
"isolated" system. In modern physics, there is no such thing as a truly "closed" system
(truly "isolated" system) in the entire universe. This fact, established now for decades,
should be incorporated in a thorough revision of thermodynamics.
An "open" thermodynamic system is presently defined as one which exchanges massenergy across its boundary, and may exchange energy as well. Again, if mass is
exchanged, then energy is exchanged, and if energy is exchanged, then mass-energy is
exchanged. Rigorously there is no system of "energy-only" exchange or "mass-only"
exchange. If the present definitions continue to be used for convenience under situations
where the error is not great, then it should be clearly specified in thermodynamic
textbooks that these definitions are assumptions for convenience, and do not always apply.
Change of Form of Energy vs. Change of Energy Magnitude
Energy and work have been defined as equivalent in thermodynamics, and that is logically
false. Work is not energy, but the change of form of energy. Also, it is not the change in
magnitude of energy. It involves a change in magnitude of some form of energy, so that a
new form of energy for that change can be had.
As an example, in thermodynamics the change in magnitude of any of the system's
external parameters (e.g., the electrostatic scalar potential ) is erroneously defined as
work (30). This assumes that any change in the system's potential energy must involve
work. Mere change of system potential (voltage) is not work, but regauging, which is
entirely work-free by the gauge freedom axiom of quantum field theory. It is
accompanied by work only when the input energy involved in the gauging change is also
changed in form. Inputting potential itself, to increase the potential of a system, does not
require work because no change of form of the input energy is required.
When one joule of energy is changed in form, a joule of work is indeed accomplished,
but there is still a joule of energy remaining though now in different form. That second
joule of energy can again be changed in form, to do a second joule of work, and there is
still a joule of energy remaining in a different form. So one joule of input energy can
result in several joules of successive work if the form of the energy is iteratively changed
several times in the system, in several interactions therein.
The conservation of energy law is simply that energy can neither be created nor
destroyed (but its form can be changed). This is equivalent to "energy can be freely added
or subtracted by transfer, and work can result if the form of the energy is also changed."
If the energy input to the system to change the magnitude of its potential energy is in
the same form as the system's potential, no work is required since that is simple regauging
of the system. An example is merely changing the voltage (scalar potential) of an EM
system or circuit with the electrons temporarily pinned and the current zeroed. No work is
done in that case.
So this present assumption in thermodynamics—that change of magnitude of system
potential energy always requires work—erroneously excludes gauge freedom, widely used
in physics. The assumption is therefore falsified by the gauge freedom axiom (31).
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Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical Regauging
The Lorentz symmetrical regauging of the Maxwell-Heaviside equations (32), for
example, assumes that the potential energy of the system is changed twice, but very
restrictively and carefully selected so that the two extra free force fields that appear are
equal and opposite. In that case, the free force fields in equal opposition constitute stress,
and the net translation vector force field is zero. In this assumption, the system may
indeed freely exchange energy by potentialization from its environment, but any excess
energy received is deliberately "bottled up" as additional internal stress energy of the
system. It is thus assumed not to be available for use to translate current through a load
and power it.
The standard closed current loop system self-enforces Lorentz symmetrical regauging
and "locks-up" all free extra forcefields by making the back emf and forward emf equal.
Thus it arbitrarily discards the innate ability for the system to use self-regauging for
powering external loads. We accent that deliberately (asymmetrically) regauging so that
the two free force fields are not equal and not necessarily opposing, can allow excess EM
energy from the external environment (e.g., from the active vacuum and local curvatures
of spacetime) that is available to be used for powering loads. A solar cell is an example of
such a system with COP = , but with a well-recognized conventional external
environment.
An asymmetrically regauging system is a system far from equilibrium a priori, and
such a dissipative system is permitted to exhibit five extraordinary functions. It can (i)
self-organize, (ii) self-oscillate or self-rotate, (iii) output more energy as useful work than
the operator inputs (exhibit COP > 1.0; the excess energy being freely input from the
environment), (iv) "self-power" (exhibit COP = , where the operator need input no
energy at all and the environment inputs all the energy freely), and (v) exhibit negative
entropy.
The conservation of energy law continues to be upheld, even when the EM system
exhibits 1.0 < COP  .
Correction of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Adding thermodynamics' missing Leyton negentropic interactions, the present form of the
Second Law is revealed to be an oxymoron assuming that its own contradiction—the
occurrence of negative entropy—has previously occurred to form the initial order.
Consistent with experiments proving the Second Law's violation, and also consistent with
Leyton's principle, a suitable new form of the second law is:
"First a broken symmetry occurs at a given level, generating a new
symmetry at the next higher level, the level of interest. Positive entropy at
the lower level is consumed and transduced, producing a negative entropy
interaction (Leyton effect) which generates controlled order (available
energy) and symmetry at the higher level of interest. This produces the
initial controlled and available order at the level of interest. Thereafter
the entropy at the level of interest may remain the same or progressively
increase in subsequent interactions at that level,, unless additional
negative entropy interactions (Leyton effects) occur below that level of
interest, consuming entropy and producing additional new negative
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entropy and additional symmetry and additional available ordered energy
at the level of interest."
This somewhat awkward but rigorous statement also seems generally consistent with
the known characteristics of dissipative systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium
(33), for which Prigogine received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977. The difference
is whether the reordering occurs by fluctuation statistics or by a Leyton mechanism of
hidden order generation.
Electrical Power System Aspects
The source charge has a coefficient of performance (COP) of COP = , though we do not
know its efficiency , but only that   100%. This is similar to a common solar cell,
which is a NESS system with COP = , even though its efficiency  may be only  =17%
in a nominal case. The 17% efficiency merely means that 83% of the energy input to the
solar cell is wasted, while COP =  means that the operator himself inputs none of the
required energy, since all of it is freely input by the active environment. Other examples
of systems with COP =  and  < 100% are the common windmill and the waterwheel,
used through the ages.
Since any charge is a NESS system far from equilibrium, it permissibly performs one
or more of those previously listed five "magic" functions permitted to such systems.
Actually, every charge in the universe already performs all five functions.
It follows that all EM field energy and EM potential energy in EM circuits and power
systems comes directly from the local vacuum, via the asymmetry of the local source
charge ensembles in the system. The energy does not come from the mechanical energy
input to the shaft of a generator, or from the chemical energy dissipated in a battery. In
short, every joule of EM energy in the universe is extracted and transduced directly from
the active vacuum via that asymmetry of the associated source charges. In addition to
requiring the MH model be changed, this forces a complete reassessment of what powers
an electrical circuit attached to a generator.
The new Leyton geometry and self-ordering of higher level symmetries is demonstrated
by electrodynamics when it is extended to the new geometry and subjected to higher
group symmetry examination. This means that self-organizing, COP =  electrical power
systems taking all their energy from the local vacuum are permitted by nature and by the
laws of physics and thermodynamics, once present models are updated. It is only our own
present flawed models and consequent flawed technology that have prevented such
electrical power systems from being developed (the solar cell, of course, is an exception).
The analogy of a heat pump—including one with clamped positive feedback for selfpowering—does apply to permissible electrical power systems (34) freely taking excess
energy from their active relativistic vacuum environment.
Why a Conventional Power Plant Is Limited to COP<1.0
In a standard power plant the fossil fuel is conveniently burned to produce steam, which is
then used to power a steam turbine cranking the shaft of the electrical generator. As the
rotor inside the generator rotates, the mechanical input energy to the shaft is transduced
into magnetic field energy inside the generator. This magnetic field energy is then
dissipated on the internal charges inside the generator, forcing the positive charges in one
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direction and the negative charges in the other, separating them and forming the source
dipolarity between the generator terminals (35). That is all the power plant accomplishes
by burning fossil fuel so that the shaft of the generator is turned.
Once the dipole is formed, then by the asymmetry of opposite charges the dipole itself
continuously extracts unusable EM field energy from the seething local vacuum exchange.
It transduces the absorbed virtual energy into observable and usable energy form, and
continuously pours it out of the terminals, filling all space surrounding the external
conductors. Some of this external energy flow—the Poynting component—is diverged
into the conductors to potentialize the Drude electron gas, thus powering the circuit and its
loads and losses (36,37,38,39).
The closed current loop circuit forces the spent electrons from the ground return line
back through the back emf of the generator, scattering the charges and destroying the
dipolarity. This in turn destroys the free extraction of EM energy from the vacuum.
Consequently, the shaft of the generator must be forcibly rotated some more, to again
separate internal charges and reform the dipole. It is easily shown that more energy is
required to continually reform the source dipolarity than is dissipated in the external loads.
The Present Power System Situation
Presently we pay the power company to deliberately design, build, and implement
electrical power systems that extract all their EM energy freely from the vacuum, but also
deliberately kill that extraction process faster than they can use it to power their loads. A
very large but ignored nondiverged Heaviside energy flow component pours from the
terminals of every generator and is wasted. When that available but ignored Heaviside
energy flow component is considered, every generator and battery already is a COP>>1.0
energy converter system. It is ironic that every EM circuit and electrical power system
already produces—from the local vacuum—far more energy than the scientific
community acknowledges, accounts, or models.
Inexplicably, the scientific community continues to teach and advocate that wasteful
process. That process and its accompanying scientific mindset produce the escalating
energy crisis, pollute the biosphere by harmful byproducts of electrical power systems,
contribute to global warming by green house emissions, kill off entire vulnerable species,
and poison the planet including the oceans, the land and its waterways, and the
atmosphere.
Regrettably, leaders of the scientific community's energy research—the National
Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, the great national laboratories, the
Department of Energy, etc.—apparently do not have a single well-funded and staffed
effort to vigorously investigate and further develop the technology for extracting EM
energy from the local vacuum. There appear to be no serious graduate level or post
doctoral level programs and no substantial funding to unleash young, vigorous graduate
students and post-doctoral researchers in this area. To the contrary, those scientists urging
strong "energy from the vacuum" research are subjected to ad hominem attacks, loss of
jobs, rejection of papers and publications, withholding of tenure, and character
assassination. With approval of the scientific community the government and industry are
spending billions of dollars on fuel cells, more efficient combustion of hydrocarbons, and
similar stopgap measures. Little or nothing is spent or planned for investigating and
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further capitalizing on the free "vacuum energy fuel" that already powers every circuit and
electrical power system.
Meanwhile, unfunded work in higher group symmetry electrodynamics has been
published (10,40-45), showing that energy from the vacuum is indeed permitted and
strongly indicating that direct engineering is possible.
Conclusion
Our conclusion is that sufficient technical work—both theoretical and experimental—
already exists to warrant an urgent, high priority national scientific program to investigate
and rapidly develop electrical power systems freely taking and using part or all of their
"fuel" energy directly from the local vacuum. Every charge in every circuit and electrical
power system already does it, but we ignore it and waste it. We only have to recognize
and work out the principles and concepts with insight gained from extending our present
scientific and engineering models. Once this is done, we can proceed directly to design
and build real power systems analogous to "electrical windmills", drawing all their
required energy directly from the active local vacuum. Once that is accomplished, the
energy crisis will be permanently solved and the stranglehold on humanity of its need for
fossil fuels will be released.
Recommendations
Our recommendations are a variant and extension of Abelson's recommendation:
1. Not only should the U.S. federal government take vigorous and constructive "out
of the box" action in perfecting vacuum energy extraction to address our
dependence on fossil fuels, but also the leaders of the scientific community and the
leading scientific journals should correct the serious MH foundations problems we
discussed, as well as thermodynamics. Indeed, correction of these foundations
problems and their solutions should be included in textbooks, journals, electrical
engineering departments, and classroom instruction. The aged MH model itself
should be dramatically updated so that the electrical engineering curriculum
prepares scientists and engineers to understand what really powers an electrical
circuit or device.
2. The leaders of the scientific community—National Academy of Sciences, National
Academy of Engineering, National Science Foundation, National Research
Council, and the great National Laboratories of the Department of Energy—should
vigorously address the long-neglected fact that all EM energy in all electrical
power systems and EM circuits already comes directly from the local vacuum via
the asymmetry of the local source charges in those systems. Strong programs in
both theoretical advancement and experimental advancement in the field of
electrical energy from the vacuum should be formed and expedited. Indeed, a
national crash program similar to the World War II Manhattan Project is strongly
recommended and urgently required.
3. Substantial funding and strong incentives for graduate students, post-doctoral
scientists, and outstanding professors to vigorously investigate—both theoretically
and experimentally—the energy from the vacuum area should also be established
on a continuing high priority basis.
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If these recommendations are implemented with adequate emphasis and funding, the
present critical energy problems can be solved in three years, with full implementation
following within a single decade.
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12. T. D. Lee, Phys. Rev. 104(1), 254 (1956).
13. T. D. Lee, Reinhard Oehme, C. N. Yang, Phys. Rev. 106(2), 340 (1957).
14. T. D. Lee, Symmetries, Asymmetries, and the World of Particles (U. Wash. Press,
Seattle, 1988), p. 11.
15. For a static source charge, this process establishes and replenishes the so-called
static EM fields and potentials and their energy. Nonetheless, the photons
comprising and replenishing these "static" fields and potentials are moving at light
speed. The "envelopes" of the fields and potentials are static, but are comprised of
inner parts in constant motion. They are thus analogous to an unfrozen waterfall,
not to a frozen one. See T. Van Flandern, Phys. Lett. A 250, 11 (Dec. 21, 1998).
16. Indeed, the broken symmetry of opposite charges is also the key to understanding
Kron's open path, never clearly revealed by him and long sought by other theorists.
The dipolarity between any two separated charges, regardless of the distance of
separation, must serve as an "extended" source, emitting at least some observable
photons transformed from the virtual EM energy of the active vacuum. As an
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example, this effect inside the biological body, between charges in the body and
external charges and their changes, has not been investigated.
This is of course a negative entropy change, which has not appeared in physics
but may have bearing on dark matter and dark energy, since any and every two
separated unlike charges in the universe are engaged in this energy-producing
negative entropy operation. Particularly see Gabriel Kron, "The Frustrating Search
for a Geometrical Model of Electrodynamic Networks," Tensor (new series) 13,
111 (1963). Quoting from p. 114: "...the missing concept of "open-paths" (the dual
of "closed-paths") was discovered, in which currents could be made to flow in
branches that lie between any set of two nodes. (Previously — following Maxwell
— engineers tied all of their open-paths to a single datum-point, the 'ground').
That discovery of open-paths established a second rectangular transformation
matrix... which created 'lamellar' currents..." "A network with the simultaneous
presence of both closed and open paths was the answer to the author's years-long
search."
17. One result is that Kron's open path becomes a true negative resistor, of the kind he
produced at Stanford University on a U.S. Navy project operating the Network
Analyzer in the 1930s. Never allowed to release the mechanism for his negative
resistor, Kron nonetheless managed to confirm its ability to make the Network
Analyzer self-powering. Cf. Gabriel Kron, “Electric circuit models of the
Schrödinger equation,” Phys. Rev. 67(1-2), 41 (Jan. 1 and 15, 1945). Quoting:
“Now a value E of the negative resistances, at which the generator current
becomes zero, represents a state at which the circuit is self-supporting and has a
continuous existence of its own without the presence of the generator, as the
negative resistances just supply the energy consumed by the positive resistances.
(If the circuit contains inductors and capacitors, the circuit is a resonant circuit
and it oscillates at its basic frequency.) … When the generator current is positive
the circuit draws energy from the source, and when the current is negative the
circuit pumps back energy into the source. At zero generator current the circuit
neither gives nor takes energy, and theoretically the generator may be removed.”
The present author asserts that Kron was required to insert the word "theoretically"
in that statement, to pass the censorship.
18. See Gabriel Kron, "Numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential
equations by means of equivalent circuits," J. Appl. Phys. 16, 173 (Mar. 1945a).
Quoting: "When only positive and negative real numbers exist, it is customary to
replace a positive resistance by an inductance and a negative resistance by a
capacitor (since none or only a few negative resistances exist on practical network
analyzers.)" We assert that the censors also forced the insertion of "none or" in the
parenthetical expression.
19. See also Gabriel Kron, “Electric circuit models of the Schrödinger equation,”
Phys. Rev. 67(1-2), 39 (Jan. 1 and 15, 1945). Quoting: "Although negative
resistances are available for use with a network analyzer, in practice it is more
convenient to use a second type of circuit, in which the positive and negative
resistances are replaced by inductors and capacitors and the dc currents and
voltages are replaced by ac currents and voltages of fixed frequency. The use of
the second type of interpretation is equivalent to multiplying the wave equation by
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i = 1." In this passage Kron finally got through the censorship a clear statement
that a few of his negative resistors were in fact available for use on the Network
Analyzer.
20. See J. W. Lynn, R. A. Russell, "Kron's Wave Automaton," Physical Structures in
System Theory, J. J. Dixhoorn and F. J. Evans (Eds), (Academic Press, London,
1974), p. 131. Quoting: "Kron has never published details of his method of making
the polyhedron self-organizing, although his published results show that in this
state it has some remarkable properties, associated with harmonic integrals on
multiply connected spaces."
21. D. J. Evans and L. Rondoni, J. Stat. Phys. 109(3-4), 895 (Nov. 2002).
22. M. Leyton, A Generative Theory of Shape (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001).
23. F. Klein, "Vergleichende Betrachtungen über neuere geometrische Forschungen."
1872. Klein's Erlanger program was initiated in 1872 to describe geometric
structures in terms of their automorphism groups. It has driven much of the
physics development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
24. I. M. Yaglom, Felix Klein and Sophus Lie: Evolution of the Idea of Symmetry in
the Nineteenth Century (Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 1988).
25. Application of Leyton's geometry and principle may eventually shed light on the
vexing hierarchy problem of particle physics, but that has not yet been determined.
S. Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory (Vintage Books, Random House, 1993), p.
205 succinctly discusses the hierarchy problem.
26. G. M. Wang, E. M. Sevick, E. Mittag, D. J. Searles, D. J. Evans, Phys. Rev. Lett.
89(5), 050601 (29 July 2002).
27. D. Bohm, Phys. Rev. 85(2), 166, 180 (Jan. 15, 1952).
28. H. Price, Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point (Oxford University Press, Oxford,
paperback 1997), p. 78.
29. The impact on the assumption of uncertainty in quantum mechanics is obvious, but
prolonged discussion is beyond the scope of this paper. However, Evans has
shown a major new unified field theory equation, and in the derivative theory,
quantum mechanics can be formulated without being founded on probability. In
that approach and model, the uncertainty principle need not apply. See M. W.
Evans, "A Generally Covariant Field Equation for Gravitation and
Electromagnetism," Found. Phys. Lett. (2003) (accepted).The new vision of a selfordering universe from Leyton still allows uncertainty to be a characteristic of the
observer due to his lack of knowledge; however, the universe itself retains the
geometric information of every part in the whole.
30. R. Baierlein, Thermal Physics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999), p.
2.
31. McGraw Hill Dictionary of Physics and Mathematics, Daniel N. Lapedes , ed. in
chief, (McGraw Hill, New York, 1978), p. 399 succinctly describes gauge
transformations. What has not been accented in gauge field theory is that
changing the gauge, and therefore changing both the magnetic vector potential and
the electrostatic scalar potential, assumes that energy exchange between vacuum
and system has been freely accomplished (usually twice).
32. E.g., J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, New York, Ed. 3, 1999), p.
239-242.
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33. G. Nicolis and I. Prigogine, Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems: From
Dissipative Structures to Order through Fluctuations (Wiley, New York, 1977).
34. We accent that the standard Lorentz symmetrical regauging of the MaxwellHeaviside equations arbitrarily discards all those permissible Maxwell systems far
from equilibrium with their active environment. Further, the ubiquitous closed
current loop circuit self-enforces Lorentz symmetry in the power system. The first
requirement for COP>1.0 or COP =  is to violate the closed current loop
operation of the system—which means violating Lorentz symmetry at least for a
fraction of the circuit's operation. This of course is synonymous with utilizing
Kron's open path, actually a function of the asymmetry of differing charges.
35. We acknowledge that this forcible separation involves all electrons and lattice
positrons in the external circuit as well, since all like charges in the loop repel, and
all unlike charges in the loop attract. Once the dipolarity is established, however,
energy flow extraction from the vacuum and emission of real Poynting energy
flow from the generator terminals will continue freely as long as the dipole is
intact.
Ideally, dipolar external power sources should be only temporarily connected
and used to potentialize their external circuits with the current momentarily
pinned, then disconnected. The current in the independent circuit then can be
unpinned and the freely collected excitation energy will be dissipated in the loads
and losses without return through the back emf of the disconnected external
dipolar source. In short, we should use the external "power" source only as a
source of potential, for current-free asymmetric regauging (free potentialization) of
the external power circuits themselves.
In accordance with the simple equation W = q, as much energy W as is
desired can be iteratively collected in the circuit in this manner from any dipolar
source of potential , by adjusting the available intercepted charges q and the
conditions of iteration. This development alone would eliminate the need for large
power plants such as are presently utilized. Use of freely regauging local power
systems, together with local simple sources of the necessary voltage and
potentialization, would become the norm.
36. The Heaviside energy flow theory is superior to Poynting's theory, and—in
addition to Poynting's linear flow component—includes an extra, much larger
energy flow curl component that is not diverged into the conductors and usually
does not interact with anything. See Oliver Heaviside, Electrical Papers, 2
(1887), p. 94.
37. Classical EM texts continue to pose the addition to the Poynting energy flow, of
extra energy flow in curl form, as having no physical significance (because the
divergence of the added curl component is zero). E.g., see J. D. Jackson, Classical
Electrodynamics (Wiley, New York, 2nd ed., 1975), p. 237. Quoting: : "...the
Poynting vector is arbitrary to the extent that the curl of any vector field can be
added to it. Such an added term can, however, have no physical consequences."
In a locally curved spacetime, however, the divergence of the curl need not
mathematically be the usual zero vector after all. Hence by adroit use of energy
density and spacetime curvature in circuits, in theory some of the available but
ignored large Heaviside component can be diverged and utilized.
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38. For a replicable experiment demonstrating the extraction of extra energy from this
"free" Heaviside energy flow component, see Craig F. Bohren, "How can a particle
absorb more than the light incident on it?" Am. J. Phys. 51(4), 323 (Apr. 1983).
Under nonlinear conditions, a resonant particle can indeed absorb more energy
than is in the [Poynting flow] light incident on it. Metallic particles at ultraviolet
frequencies are one class of such particles and insulating particles at infrared
frequencies are another.
39. For independent replication of Bohren's experiment, see H. Paul and R. Fischer,
{Comment on “How can a particle absorb more than the light incident on it?’},”
Am. J. Phys. 51(4), 327 (Apr. 1983). The Bohren experiment produces 18 times as
much energy output as the calculated Poynting energy flow input. This is a
permissible COP = 18, since the resonant particle is a dissipative system far from
equilibrium in an active environment.
40. P. K. Anastasovski et al., "Classical electrodynamics without the Lorentz
condition: Extracting energy from the vacuum," Physica Scripta 61(5), 513
(2000).
41. P. K. Anastasovski et al., "The Aharonov-Bohm Effect as the Basis of
Electromagnetic Energy Inherent in the Vacuum," Found. Phys. Lett. 15(6), 561
(2002).
42. P. K. Anastasovski et al., "Runaway Solutions of the Lehnert Equations: The
Possibility of Extracting Energy from the Vacuum," Optik 111(9), 407 (2000).
43. T. E. Bearden, "Extracting and Using Electromagnetic Energy from the Active
Vacuum," in M. W. Evans (ed.), Modern Nonlinear Optics (Wiley, New York, 2nd
ed., Vol. 2, 2001), p. 639-698.
44. M. W. Evans, "A Generally Covariant Field Equation for Gravitation and
Electromagnetism," Found. Phys. Lett. (accepted). This spectacular new equation
by Evans appears to be the long-sought master equation from which all forces of
nature can be derived together with their own master equations.
45. P. K. Anastasovski et al., "The B(3) Field from Antisymmetrized General
Relativity: Electromagnetic Energy from Curved Spacetime," Found. Phys. Lett.
(submitted).
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