Chaos And The Zero Point Field

"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters."  Peter Thiel 

In order to POWER those flying cars, we will need a portable energy source.

No, really.

Such an energy source does exist: the zero point field. Nikola Tesla was talking about it over 120 years ago. But, we don't yet have such technology. Sorry about that, Dr. T. 

Anyway, I was re-reading James Gleick's great book, Chaos (which I highly recommend). In so doing, I found this very interesting passage:

"...chaos brought an astonishing message: simple deterministic models could produce what looked like random behavior. The behavior actually had an exquisite fine structure, yet any piece of it seemed indistinguishable from noise."

A fine structure, yet indistinguishable from noise. Hmm.

I knew from past research that "noise" is actually a manifestation of the zero point field. So, I wondered, could the process be reversed: could we go from fine-structured noise, to coherence?
Which would give us...energy, from the zero point field.

About 150 pages further on in Gleick's book, I read about Michael Barnsley, then at Georgia Tech, who did just that: he found a way to take any chaotic data set, and recover the equation that would generate just such a chaos pattern.

It's a start, a big start. Now, I can move forward with some confidence that this is actually a solvable problem, and not the impossible dream.

We will be able to power our flying cars.

 

Metamaterials And Transformation Optics

Since it is becoming obvious that metamaterials is going to be very important, for the physical realization ("hardware") of the technology of quantum engineering, it might be a good idea to put out some general information about that subject.

Also, some general information about the subject of transformation optics, which is the recently developed design technique for metamaterials.

So, the first recommendation is a paper:

Transformation Optics and the Geometry of Light
Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas G. Philbin
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0805.4778.pdf

 Very good intro, concise, and all that. 72 pages worth, give it a go.

The next recommendation is a book, curiously enough, by the same authors:

Geometry and Light: The Science of Invisibility [2010]

Ulf Leonhardt, Thomas Philbin

Dover Books on Physics

ISBN-13: 978-0486476933 

 

The book, of course, goes into much more detail than does the paper, as well as having more & better graphics. Go figure.

So, if you want to understand quantum engineering, this is a real god starting point.