Physics of the Zero Point Field and its Applications to Advanced Technology

by Takaaki Musha (Editor)

Space-time in a vacuum has generally been viewed as a transparent and ubiquitous empty continuum within which physical events take place. However quantum field theory and quantum electrodynamics views the vacuum as the sum total of all zero-point fluctuations of the vacuum electromagnetic field, arising from the continuous creation and annihilation of virtual particle pairs. It is this latter more contemporary view that is, for the first time, more fully explored in text form with Physics of the Zero Point Field. The scope of applications in this book range from the Casimir effect, the variation in zero-point energy at the boundaries of a region observable in nano-scale devices, to ideas for a proposed inertial drive as first described by Puthoff.

Genres: Physics

184 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2012

About the author

Takaaki Musha (born September 17, 1951) is a Japanese research engineer. He received M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan, in 1977 and 1994, respectively, both in material science and mechanical engineering. He joined the Advanced Space Propulsion Investigation Committee (ASPIC) in 1994, which was organized under the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, the purpose of which was to study non-chemical space propulsion systems.

He has been working for the Technical Research & Development Institute of the as a research engineer on naval systems. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Marine Acoustics Society of Japan. He has published numerous articles in scientific and engineering journals. In addition to acoustics, his research interests include physics of faster-than-light (also known as superluminal) phenomena, anti-gravitational propulsion, and non-conventional energy sources. From 1992 to 1996, he conducted experiments to confirm the Biefeld-Brown effect solely and later cooperated with the research group of the Honda R&D institute, and obtained positive results. He also derived the formula to explain the electrogravitic effect from the weak-field approximation of Einstein's General Relativity Theory; a formula that was similar to the formula obtained by Boyko V.Ivanov, which was derived from the Weyl-Majumdar-Papapetrou solutions of the General Relativity Theory.

Former senior research scientist at the Technical Research and Development Institute of the Ministry of Defense, Japan.

Director of the Advanced-Science Technology Research Organization (Japan)

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Space Exploration (Mehta Press)