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Energy from the Vacuum
Concepts & Principles
By Tom Bearden
977 pages
Table of Contents: | ||
Dedication. |
iii |
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Acknowledgements. |
xi |
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Foreword. |
xiv |
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Chapter 1 | Foundations and Scientific Mindset. |
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1.1 Introduction | ||
1.2 Organized Science Often Resists Innovative Change | ||
1.3 Scientific Disagreement or Street Fight? | ||
1.4 A Few Significant and Unresolved Scientific Problems | ||
1.5 Electrodynamics is Still Developing | ||
1.6 A Summarizing Letter | ||
Chapter 2 | Background and Concepts. |
75 |
2.1 Comments on the Foundations of Classical Electrodynamics | ||
2.2 Lorentz Regauging of the Maxwell-Heaviside Equations | ||
2.3 The Suicidal Closed Unitary Current Loop Circuit | ||
2.4 In Summary | ||
Chapter 3 |
Giant Negentropy, Dark Energy, Spiral Galaxies and Acceleration of the Expanding Universe. |
125 |
3.1 Broken 3-Symmetry of the Dipole | ||
3.2 Reinterpreting Whittaker's Decomposition of the Scalar Potential | ||
3.3 How the Dipole Charges Transduce Time Energy | ||
3.4 Reordering of the Local Vacuum: Giant Negentropy | ||
3.5 Some Implications of Giant Negentropy | ||
3.6 How Circuits Are Powered | ||
3.7 The Heaviside Component vs. the Poynting Component | ||
3.8 Dark Positive Energy: The Unaccounted Heaviside Component | ||
3.9 A Short History of the Discarding of the Heaviside Dark Energy | ||
3.10 The Problem of the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe | ||
3.11 In Conclusion | ||
Chapter 4 | Setting the Stage for Understanding Over unity Power Systems. |
171 |
4.1 Introduction | ||
4.2 Demonstration Gedanken Experiment | ||
4.3 Iterative Retroreflection and Collection in a Circuit | ||
4.4 Tesla's Iterative Retroreflection Work | ||
4.5 Perspective on Tesla vs. Marconi | ||
4.6 Conclusion | ||
Chapter 5 | Selected Approaches to Overunity Power Systems. |
219 |
5.1 Introduction | ||
5.2 Tesla's Shuttling of Potential Energy and Barrett's Extension | ||
5.3 Moray's Radiant Energy Device | ||
5.4 Anti-Stokes Emission and Similar Processes | ||
5.5 Gain in Intensely Scattering Optically Active Media | ||
5.6 The Fiber Fuse | ||
5.7 Multiple Feedforward and Feedback Semiconductor Loops | ||
5.8 Negative Resistors | ||
5.9 Suppression of Free Energy Systems Has Been Common | ||
5.10 In Conclusion | ||
Chapter 6 | Additional Approaches to Overunity Power Systems. |
293 |
6.1 Introduction | ||
6.2 Energy Conversion and Energy Amplification | ||
6.3 Other Systems of Electrical Interest | ||
6.4 Some Magnetic Processes of Interest | ||
6.5 Conclusion | ||
Chapter 7 |
Aharonov-Bohm Effect, Geometric Phase, and the Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG) |
385 |
7.1 Introduction | ||
7.2 Aharonov-Bohm (Geometric Phase) Effect | ||
7.3 Abbreviated History of the Geometric Phase | ||
7.4 A Possible New Aspect of the Curl-Free Magnetic Vector Potential | ||
7.5 Use of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect in the MEG | ||
7.6 Collection of Field Energy in the MEG | ||
7.7 Experimental Path to Development of the MEG | ||
7.8 Additional MEG Functions | ||
7.9 In Conclusion | ||
Chapter 8 | Approach to Antigravity. |
421 |
8.1 Introduction | ||
8.2 Selected Theories of Gravitation | ||
8.3 Selected Antigravity and Inertial Engineering Research Efforts | ||
8.4 The Author's Engineering Approach to Local Antigravity | ||
8.5 In Conclusion | ||
Chapter 9 | The Supersystem and Remarks on Gravity, Antigravity, and Testing. |
473 |
9.1 The Supersystem and Its Considerations | ||
9.2 Differences between Effects in COP>>1.0 and COP<1.0 EM Systems | ||
9.3 Primarily Concerned With Dirac Sea Holes and Not Lattice Holes |
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9.4 Peculiarities of Spacetime Curvature and Dirac Hole Interactions | ||
9.5 Charging and Discharging a Capacitor | ||
9.6 The Open-Loop COP>1.0 EM Power System | ||
9.7 Remarks on Dirac Sea Holes, Currents, and Negative Energy | ||
9.8 Remarks on the Observed Acceleration of the Expanding Universe | ||
9.9 A Solution to the Hole Current Problem and Close-Looping | ||
9.10 Negative Energy: Localized and Nonlocalized | ||
9.11 Tests Reinforcing the Antigravity Mechanism | ||
9.12 Susceptible Unitary System without Conversion of Dirac Sea Hole Current | ||
9.13 Unitary System with Conversion of Dirac Sea Hole Current | ||
9.14 Non-unitary Outrigger Array System | ||
9.15 Some Instrument Considerations | ||
9.16 Still Anomalous Aspects | ||
Chapter 10 |
Cold Fusion: Low Spatial-Energy Nuclear Reactions at High Time-Energy. |
537 |
10.1 Explaining Time as Energy | ||
10.2 Mechanism Generating Flow of a Mass through Time | ||
10.3 Time-Polarized EM Waves and Longitudinal EM Waves | ||
10.4 Time Reversal Zone and New Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms | ||
10.5 Revision of the Conservation of Energy Law | ||
10.6 Some Resulting Low Spatial Energy Nuclear Reactions | ||
10.7 Time-Energy Can Generate Instrumentation Anomalies | ||
10.8 Additional Implications for the Future | ||
Chapter 11 | Final Perspective: Permissible COP>1.0 Maxwellian Systems. |
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11.1 Introduction | ||
11.2 Source Charges, Curved Spacetime, Efficiency, and COP | ||
11.3 Truncations of Maxwell's Theory and Discard of System Classes | ||
11.4 Examples of COP>1.0 Electromagnetic Systems | ||
11.5 Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG) | ||
11.6 Physical Considerations of Gauge Freedom | ||
11.7 Special Modeling of the Vacuum | ||
11.8 Every Charge and Dipole in an EM System Receives and Transduces Vacuum Energy | ||
11.9 Energy from the Vacuum Powers Every Electrical Power Line and EM Circuit | ||
11.10 Significant Developments in Negative Resistance | ||
11.11 In Conclusion | ||
Annotated Glossary of Selected Terms. |
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Appendix A |
656 |
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Appendix B |
680 |
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Index |
774 |
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ENDNOTES |
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Erratum - Missing Figure 6-5 |