[NewCandle] that which reacteth not and is clear

[Horace Heffner]

On Mar 2, 2008, at 12:26 PM, I wrote:

"The Casimir pressure, is highly non-linear. [4]  It might thus be
concluded that simply moving a concentration of conduction band
electrons from one side of a conductive film to the other will
provide a net decrease in inertial mass for material screened from
the ZPF by that conductor.  Similarly, increasing the negative charge
of a conductor should provide a decrease in inertial mass of the
conductor itself.  Far more importantly, increasing the density of a
conductor plate surface charge increases the threshold frequency of
the excluded photons.  This means the ZPF effects on matter between
between two plates is dramatically, nonlinearly, increased by placing
a surface charge on the plates.  Fortunately, this does not mean the
plates bounding a material must contain a net charge to affect the
inertia of the material, only that one or the other or each of the
plate surfaces contain a high electron density."

A more precise version is this: "The Casimir pressure is highly non- 
linear. [4]   It might thus be concluded that simply moving a  
concentration of conduction band electrons from one side of a neutral  
conductive film to the other, thus providing a high electron  
concentration there, a strong negative surface charge there, will  
provide a net decrease in inertial mass for material screened from  
the ZPF by that conductor.  Similarly, increasing the negative charge  
of a conductor should provide a decrease in inertial mass of the  
conductor itself.  Far more importantly, increasing the density of a  
conductor plate negative surface charge increases the threshold  
frequency of the excluded photons.  This means the ZPF effects on  
matter between between two plates is dramatically, nonlinearly,  
increased by placing a negative surface charge on the plates.   
Fortunately, this does not mean the plates bounding a material must  
contain a net charge to affect the inertia of the material, only that  
one or the other of each of the plate's surfaces contain a high  
electron density."

Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/