Dear
Ron,
To learn about zero point energy etc., I would recommend searching the
web at university sites or sites by legitimate scientists, since some
of these will have very nice summaries of many such things.
It's quicker to pay the time to do the search, and get some
congealed but correct info, than to get all the false info in the
world. A favorite little
physics book you will find very useful is Paul
C. W. Davies; Editor, The New Physics, Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, New York, 1989. This book gives a sweeping, expert
survey of the new developments in modern physics, including the major
topics at the frontiers of fundamental research at that time.
Still current.
The
Feynman Lectures on Physics is fine.
Bit dated in some respects, but excellent.
Also unique, because of Feynman's perspective.
A good physics text (sophomore level, but good) is Serway, Physics.
He also includes many interesting feature articles (vignettes)
of scientists, etc.
I subscribe to Science, Physics Today, and Nature as my primary
journals to "stay up with things".
Foundations of Physics and Foundations of Physics Letters are
two good ones, but I go to the Library to read them.
Science News is also a good thing to subscribe to.
Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, second edition, is good so long
as one understands the errors in the standard EM that Jackson is
employing. His is
excellent conventional EM, but not foundations.
He solves no foundations problems, nor does he tackle them to
any real extent.
The struggle to break out of a particular wrong or flawed scientific
model, as we are doing in overunity systems, is actually a foundations
of physics exercise. Hence
one needs to be aware of some of the Foundations literature (our
professors never even told us there was such a literature!)
Couple you need to read in that vein are:
d'Espagnat,
Bernard, Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, W. A.
Benjamin, 1971.
Advanced
Electromagnetism: Foundations, Theory and Applications,
Eds Terence W. Barrett and Dale M. Grimes, World Scientific,
Singapore, 1995
Lindsay,
Robert Bruce, “The concept of energy and its early historical
development,” Foundations of Physics, 1(4), 1971, p. 383-393.
Investigates the concept of energy from its early historical
origin, from ancient times through the 18th century. Points out that the heart of the concept of energy is the
notion of invariance
in the midst of change.
Lindsay,
Robert Bruce and Henry Margenau, Foundations of Physics, Dover,
NY, 1963, p. 283. Emphasizes
that a “field of force” at any point is actually defined only for
the case when a unit mass is present at that point.
Note:
p. 217: When a system departs from equilibrium conditions, its entropy
must decrease.
Thus the energy of an open system not in equilibrium must
always be greater than the energy of the same system when it is closed
or in equilibrium, since the equilibrium state is the state of maximum
entropy.
Rodrigues,
W. A. Jr. and J.-Y. Lu, “On the existence of undistorted progressive
waves (UPWs) of arbitrary speeds 0 £
v <¥
in nature,” Foundations of Physics, 27(3), 1997, p. 435-508.
A slightly corrected version is downloadable as hep-th/9606171
on the Los Alamos National Laboratory web site. It includes corrections to the published version.
Romer,
Robert H., "Heat is not a noun," American Journal of
Physics, 69(2), Feb. 2001, p. 107-109.
Editorial discussion by the Editor of AJP of the concept of
heat in thermodynamics, where heat is not a substance, not a
thermodynamic function of state, and should not be used as a noun.
In endnote 24, p. 109, he also takes to task "…that
dreadful diagram purporting to show the electric and magnetic fields
of a plane wave, as a function of position (and/or time?) that
besmirch the pages of almost every introductory book. …it is a
horrible diagram. 'Misleading'
would be too kind a word; 'wrong' is more accurate." "…perhaps then, for historical interest, [we should]
find out how that diagram came to contaminate our literature in the
first place."
Sachs,
Robert G., The Physics of Time Reversal, University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1987. Time
reversal symmetry, time reversal asymmetry, time reversibility,
time-reversal invariance, weak interactions, left-right symmetry,
charge conjugation, weak interactions, parity violation, CP
invariance, charge-parity invariance, CPT theorem, Charge-Parity-Time
theorem, violation of T-invariance, space reversal, particle physics,
foundations of physics.
Sachs,
Robert G., "Time Reversal."
Science, 176(4035), May 12, 1972, p. 587-597. The
concept that the direction of flow of time cannot be determined by any
physical experiment has been accepted in the thought and theories of
physicists until very recent years.
The condition is usually taken as a starting principle for
formulating a theory. However,
the notion that the direction of time flow is not knowable appears to
be upset by recent experiments.
Anastasovski,
P. K; Bearden, T. E; Ciubotariu, C; Coffey, W. T.; Crowell, L. B;
Evans, G. J; Evans, M. W; Flower, R; Jeffers, S; Labounsky, A;
Lehnert, B; Meszaros, M; Molnar, P. R; Vigier, J P; Roy, S.
"Classical electrodynamics without the Lorentz condition:
Extracting energy from the vacuum," Physica Scripta 61(5),
May 2000, p. 513-517.
Bunge,
Mario, Foundations of
Physics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1967.
Highly recommended.
To
my knowledge, there are no simple overunity systems you can just get
parts and build easily. I'm
thinking of one such, or possibly such, which should work.
But I have not built it, and so must wait until we see.
For
one thing, you clearly must understand the difference between an
equilibrium system (system in equilibrium with its active environment,
including the active vacuum) and one that is open and far from
equilibrium. Books by
Prigogine etc. are useful there, but do not tell you how to do it in
terms of power systems. Just
experiments, some chemical systems, etc.
But Prigogine has it straight.
You must
understand clearly when classical (equilibrium) thermodynamics applies
and when it does not. If
you don't understand that clearly, you will wander in a morass
forever.
Finally,
the Encyclopaedia Britannica can be purchased fairly nominally on a
CD-ROM. It has a wealth
of really nice, congealed technical articles one can "surf"
through and study, with determination.
Anyway,
that should keep you busy for quite a spell. If really serious, you
should also immediately start your own computer data base, with full
reference citation, then with an abstract, then a your personal
comments, then any quotations you wish to extract, then descriptors,
then where you have it filed or if you have it or if you need to get
it. Here is one entry,
e.g., from my own database painfully compiled over the last 30 years.