Here's the breakdown:
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- Ex-NASA physicist Harold White's team published a paper modeling the quantum vacuum as a dynamic medium (not random noise), with analytic results matching real QM observations.
- Their Casimir Space startup built a 5x5mm "microsparc" chip using nano…
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- Ex-NASA physicist Harold White's team published a paper modeling the quantum vacuum as a dynamic medium (not random noise), with analytic results matching real QM observations.
- Their Casimir Space startup built a 5x5mm "microsparc" chip using nano cavities that extracts 25µA at 1.5V continuously from vacuum fluctuations—like a tiny perpetual battery.
- This scales via standard chip fabs to unlimited clean power, potentially hitting Kardashev Type III civ levels with tiny extraction fractions.Your gadgets could charge themselves indefinitely anywhere, ditching batteries and outlets forever. Broader energy abundance would slash costs, enable off-grid everything, and unlock massive tech leaps without fuel or pollution.
BREAKING: While a new War for Oil erupts in the Middle East
A Physics Paper just quietly dropped TODAY that will eventually make Oil, and the entire current Energy Industry, irrelevant.
Ushering in the era of Zero-Point Energy
@EagleworksSonny
Here is the breakthrough🧵
A Physics Paper just quietly dropped TODAY that will eventually make Oil, and the entire current Energy Industry, irrelevant.
Ushering in the era of Zero-Point Energy
@EagleworksSonny
Here is the breakthrough🧵
Traditionally we think of the vacuum as just that - empty
But since 1947 there has been experimental confirmation via the Casimir effect that it is not empty.
Rather, its filled electromagnetic modes whose lowest energy state is not zero
But since 1947 there has been experimental confirmation via the Casimir effect that it is not empty.
Rather, its filled electromagnetic modes whose lowest energy state is not zero
These "Zero Point" modes represent an enormous amount of energy
For each cubic meter of empty space, there is 10e80 more zero point energy than the sun releases in an entire year
Yet its always been thought to be impossible to get energy out of the vacuum, for a simple reason
For each cubic meter of empty space, there is 10e80 more zero point energy than the sun releases in an entire year
Yet its always been thought to be impossible to get energy out of the vacuum, for a simple reason
The standard view of the vacuum via QFT is that this energy is in the ground state, the lowest possible state, and fluctuations arise from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
This means zero average energy, with no spatial gradients - so, no way to get 'more' energy out
This means zero average energy, with no spatial gradients - so, no way to get 'more' energy out
The paper just released today by @EagleworksSonny instead models the quantum vacuum as a dynamic, compressible, acoustic medium with a quadratic dispersion
Instead of random noise, the quantum vacuum can have structure, meaning waves, dispersion, resonances
Instead of random noise, the quantum vacuum can have structure, meaning waves, dispersion, resonances
Whats important is that this is emphatically not some "crack pot GPT physics paper"
The lead author is a distinguished NASA scientist
More importantly, their analytical model reproduces all the 'larger scale' predictions and measurements of quantum mechanics
Exactly
The lead author is a distinguished NASA scientist
More importantly, their analytical model reproduces all the 'larger scale' predictions and measurements of quantum mechanics
Exactly
This sounds like a subtle difference - sure, the quantum vacuum is like an acoustic medium
But this means it is not pure zero-mean fluctuations, just noise, thats unusable
Instead, it means the vacuum can have local structure, that it is in effect a dynamic medium
But this means it is not pure zero-mean fluctuations, just noise, thats unusable
Instead, it means the vacuum can have local structure, that it is in effect a dynamic medium
The company behind this is Casimir Space, lead by @EagleworksSonny , which has a public website available
Claiming something that will change the world forever:
Demonstrated extraction of power from the quantum vacuum using a nano-fabricated chip
25uA at 1.5 Volts
Claiming something that will change the world forever:
Demonstrated extraction of power from the quantum vacuum using a nano-fabricated chip
25uA at 1.5 Volts
This sounds tiny, but, its already enough to power low-cost miniaturized sensors
More importantly, though, is that this forever changes our relationship to energy, and even the Kardasehv scale
Usually, all energy is downstream of fusion reactions
Not any more
More importantly, though, is that this forever changes our relationship to energy, and even the Kardasehv scale
Usually, all energy is downstream of fusion reactions
Not any more
The energy density of empty space is so vast, it dwarfs the energy released by stars and galaxies
To reach a Kardashev Type 3 civilization with one cubic meter of zero point energy extraction
You only need to extract 10e-80 percent, or 0.000...[80 zeroes]...1% per second
To reach a Kardashev Type 3 civilization with one cubic meter of zero point energy extraction
You only need to extract 10e-80 percent, or 0.000...[80 zeroes]...1% per second
This doesn't require billion-dollar fusion reactors or radioactive fuels, or dyson sphere megaprojects
Casimir is producing unlimited power-chips using conventional semiconductor fabrication methods that produce tiny 'casimir wells' that can trickle-charge energy indefinitely
Casimir is producing unlimited power-chips using conventional semiconductor fabrication methods that produce tiny 'casimir wells' that can trickle-charge energy indefinitely
This means humanity already has all the tech infrastructure required to extract usable energy from the quantum vacuum, previously thought impossible
And we can stack this indefinitely, larger and larger, to megawatts and then gigawatts
This unlocks the Star Trek-level tech
And we can stack this indefinitely, larger and larger, to megawatts and then gigawatts
This unlocks the Star Trek-level tech
It's early days for Casimir, but the paper published today and claimed milestones on their website make it unambiguous
Energy, what underpins all technological progress, industrial scale, and civilizational abundance
Is essentially unlimited, with no fuels, no pollution
Energy, what underpins all technological progress, industrial scale, and civilizational abundance
Is essentially unlimited, with no fuels, no pollution
What's more - you can actually come see Harold White present his technical milestones and explain this technology in-person, in just three weeks
At NYC Deep Tech Week @deeptechweek, presented by @M31Capital
BREAKING: While a new War for Oil erupts in the Middle East
A Physics Paper just quietly dropped TODAY that will eventually make Oil, and the entire current Energy Industry, irrelevant.
Ushering in the era of Zero-Point Energy
@EagleworksSonny
Here is the breakthrough🧵
A Physics Paper just quietly dropped TODAY that will eventually make Oil, and the entire current Energy Industry, irrelevant.
Ushering in the era of Zero-Point Energy
@EagleworksSonny
Here is the breakthrough🧵
Traditionally we think of the vacuum as just that - empty
But since 1947 there has been experimental confirmation via the Casimir effect that it is not empty.
Rather, its filled electromagnetic modes whose lowest energy state is not zero
But since 1947 there has been experimental confirmation via the Casimir effect that it is not empty.
Rather, its filled electromagnetic modes whose lowest energy state is not zero
These "Zero Point" modes represent an enormous amount of energy
For each cubic meter of empty space, there is 10e80 more zero point energy than the sun releases in an entire year
Yet its always been thought to be impossible to get energy out of the vacuum, for a simple reason
For each cubic meter of empty space, there is 10e80 more zero point energy than the sun releases in an entire year
Yet its always been thought to be impossible to get energy out of the vacuum, for a simple reason
The standard view of the vacuum via QFT is that this energy is in the ground state, the lowest possible state, and fluctuations arise from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
This means zero average energy, with no spatial gradients - so, no way to get 'more' energy out
This means zero average energy, with no spatial gradients - so, no way to get 'more' energy out
The paper just released today by @EagleworksSonny instead models the quantum vacuum as a dynamic, compressible, acoustic medium with a quadratic dispersion
Instead of random noise, the quantum vacuum can have structure, meaning waves, dispersion, resonances
Instead of random noise, the quantum vacuum can have structure, meaning waves, dispersion, resonances
Whats important is that this is emphatically not some "crack pot GPT physics paper"
The lead author is a distinguished NASA scientist
More importantly, their analytical model reproduces all the 'larger scale' predictions and measurements of quantum mechanics
Exactly
The lead author is a distinguished NASA scientist
More importantly, their analytical model reproduces all the 'larger scale' predictions and measurements of quantum mechanics
Exactly
This sounds like a subtle difference - sure, the quantum vacuum is like an acoustic medium
But this means it is not pure zero-mean fluctuations, just noise, thats unusable
Instead, it means the vacuum can have local structure, that it is in effect a dynamic medium
But this means it is not pure zero-mean fluctuations, just noise, thats unusable
Instead, it means the vacuum can have local structure, that it is in effect a dynamic medium
The company behind this is Casimir Space, lead by @EagleworksSonny , which has a public website available
Claiming something that will change the world forever:
Demonstrated extraction of power from the quantum vacuum using a nano-fabricated chip
25uA at 1.5 Volts
Claiming something that will change the world forever:
Demonstrated extraction of power from the quantum vacuum using a nano-fabricated chip
25uA at 1.5 Volts
This sounds tiny, but, its already enough to power low-cost miniaturized sensors
More importantly, though, is that this forever changes our relationship to energy, and even the Kardasehv scale
Usually, all energy is downstream of fusion reactions
Not any more
More importantly, though, is that this forever changes our relationship to energy, and even the Kardasehv scale
Usually, all energy is downstream of fusion reactions
Not any more
The energy density of empty space is so vast, it dwarfs the energy released by stars and galaxies
To reach a Kardashev Type 3 civilization with one cubic meter of zero point energy extraction
You only need to extract 10e-80 percent, or 0.000...[80 zeroes]...1% per second
To reach a Kardashev Type 3 civilization with one cubic meter of zero point energy extraction
You only need to extract 10e-80 percent, or 0.000...[80 zeroes]...1% per second
This doesn't require billion-dollar fusion reactors or radioactive fuels, or dyson sphere megaprojects
Casimir is producing unlimited power-chips using conventional semiconductor fabrication methods that produce tiny 'casimir wells' that can trickle-charge energy indefinitely
Casimir is producing unlimited power-chips using conventional semiconductor fabrication methods that produce tiny 'casimir wells' that can trickle-charge energy indefinitely
This means humanity already has all the tech infrastructure required to extract usable energy from the quantum vacuum, previously thought impossible
And we can stack this indefinitely, larger and larger, to megawatts and then gigawatts
This unlocks the Star Trek-level tech
And we can stack this indefinitely, larger and larger, to megawatts and then gigawatts
This unlocks the Star Trek-level tech
It's early days for Casimir, but the paper published today and claimed milestones on their website make it unambiguous
Energy, what underpins all technological progress, industrial scale, and civilizational abundance
Is essentially unlimited, with no fuels, no pollution
Energy, what underpins all technological progress, industrial scale, and civilizational abundance
Is essentially unlimited, with no fuels, no pollution
What's more - you can actually come see Harold White present his technical milestones and explain this technology in-person, in just three weeks
At NYC Deep Tech Week @deeptechweek, presented by @M31Capital
At NYC Deep Tech Week @deeptechweek, presented by @M31Capital
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