Unruh Radiation 1

Those of you familiar with Rome’s Revolution know that in the 35th century, the Vuduri can travel faster than light using the PPT star-drive. The PPT drive uses Casimir Pumps to produce streams of positive and negative energy. The negative energy is accumulated into a pocket in space. Where there is no energy, i.e. negative energy, there is no space so a starship traveling through a pocket of negative energy goes from Point A to Point C without ever passing through Point B. Make the pocket big enough, actually deep enough, and you can travel much faster than the speed of light without violating relativity.

I did not invent the Casimir Effect. It was first described in 1948 by Hendrick Casimir. Casimir postulated that neutral space spontaneously splits into positive and negative energy due to quantum fluctuations. Normally, the positive and negative regions recombine very quickly with the net effect being neutral. All I did was propose a scifi mechanism (the dark matter diode) to keep the two types of energy separate.

But you don't need to postulate dark matter like I did. If you take two plates and position them close enough, certain wavelengths of these spontaneous emissions may get trapped in the space between them. In other words, the positive and negative regions behave differently and you get a small but measurable attractive force where none should exist. In the ensuing years, the Casimir Effect has actually been measured experimentally several times.

The broader implication is that quantum physicists do not see the vacuum of space as a vast region of nothingness but rather (according to Scientific American):

“Far from being empty, modern physics assumes that a vacuum is full of fluctuating electromagnetic waves that can never be completely eliminated, like an ocean with waves that are always present and can never be stopped.”

If the vacuum of space is an ocean of undetected waves and particles, it provides a framework to move against, perhaps even to push against. This may explain how RF resonant cavity thrusters such as the EmDrive and the Cannae Drive operate. They may exploit an effect called the Unruh Effect and utilize the emissions which are called Unruh Radiation. I'll do my best to explain this tomorrow.