On the magnitude of the energy flow inherent in zero-point radiation
Abstract
The spectrum of zero-point radiation is relativistically invariant and its spectral density function is therefore inversely proportional to the cubes of its wavelengths. For its energy to be finite, there must exist a minimum wavelength, . The measurements of the apparent attraction between two uncharged conductor plates, placed in a vacuum at a temperature close to absolute zero, made by Sparnaay in 1958 allow us to deduce that the energy flow of the zero-point radiation which comes of or into an area , corresponds with the emission of one photon of wavelength per , plus one photon of wavelength per , etc., up to one photon of wavelength per . This energy flow is enormous, but Sparnaay's experiments implied only photons whose wavelengths were greater than cm, and zero-point radiation may include only photons with wavelengths greater than , being an integer, perhaps very great.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0311027,
title = {On the magnitude of the energy flow inherent in zero-point radiation},
author = {Rafael Alvargonzalez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0311027},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures; some minor typos corrected. Conclusions remain unchanged