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RS Electrogravitic References: Part 12 of 19.

"CP Violation and Antigravity Revisited", G. Chardin, Nuclear Physics, 
Jun 7 1993, Vol 558

"Equivalence Principal Violation, Antigravity and Anyons Induced by 
Gravitational Chern-Simons Couplings", S. Deser, Classical and Quantum 
Gravity, 1992, Vol 9 Supp

"The Arguments Against Antigravity and the Gravitational Acceleration 
of Anti-Matter", Michael Martin, Physics Reports, Jul 1 1991, Vol 205 

"Empirical Limits to Antigravity", Ericson & Richter, Europhysics Letters, 
Feb 15 1990, Vol 11 no 4

"Chern-Simons Quantizations of (2+1) Anti-de Sitter Gravity on a Torus", 
K. Ezawa, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Feb 1 1995 Vol 12 No 2 

"Green's Function for Anti-de Sitter Space Gravity", Gary Kleppe, 
Physical Review d: Particles, Fields, Gravity; Dec 15 1994 Vol 50 No 12 

"Lowest Eigenvalues of the Energy Operator for Totally Anti Symmetric 
Massless Fields of the N-Dimensional Anti-de Sitter Group", R.R. Metsaev, 
Classical and Quantum Gravity, Nov 1 1994, Vol 11 No 11 

"The Positivity of Energy for Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes", 
E. Woolgar, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Jul 1 1994, Vol 11 No 7 

"Vacuum Polarization Near Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Black Holes 
in Odd Dimensions", Shiraishi & Maki, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Jul 1 
1994, Vol 11 No 7

"Strong Anti Gravity: Life in the Shock Wave", Fabbrichesi & Roland, 
Nuclear Physics B, Dec 21 1992, Vol 388 No 2 

"Global Solutions of Yang-Mills Equations on Anti-de Sitter Spacetime", 
Choquet-Bruhat, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Dec 1 1989, Vol 6 No 12 

"The Scalar Wave Equation on Static de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter 
Spacetimes", D. Polarski, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Jun 1 1989 

"Lehman Representation of the Spinor Two-Point Function in Anti-de Sitter 
Space", E. Gath, Classical and Quantum Gravity, May 1 1989, Vol 6 no 5 

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Dr. Bernhard Haisch has modeled inertial mass as deriving from an accelerated 
body's interaction with the zero point field (ZPF), consonant with a large 
body of refereed physics literature. 

Haisch in Feb 1994 Phys. Rev. A
Science vol 263 p 612
Scientific American vol 270, p 30
New Scientist 25 Feb 1995 p 30
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"Gravity as a Zero-Point-Fluctuation Force," H.E. Puthoff, Physical 
Review A: General Physics. Mar 1 1989, Vol39 No 5 ----------------------------
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The 4 February 1994 issue of Science magazine has an article about a new 
theory of inertia. A recent paper by Bernhard Haisch, Alfonso Rueda and Hal 
Puthoff in the 1 Feb 1994 issue of Physical Review A, based on earlier work by 
Andrei Sakharov, derives inertia from quantum electromagnetic vacuum 
fluctuations. The idea is that if inertia is due to some strange quantum EM 
effects, it might be understood and controlled, and even neutralized. 
Haisch is at the Lockheed Palo Alto laboratories, Rueda, at Cal. State. Long 
Beach, and Puthoff at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin Texas. 
Needless to say, this new theory is serious, but very controversial physics. A 
test is planned later this year at the SLAC linear accelerator by exposing a 
high energy electron beam to terawatt laser. Keep tuned!
-- John H. Chalmers Jr
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A recent controversial theory of Austin Institute for Advanced Study physicist 
Hal Puthoff and his collaborators Haisch and Rueda appears to explain gravity 
as not an intrinsic property of matter but as an indirect consequence of 
Maxwellian electromagnetic radiation, namely that (as earlier suggested by the 
late Russian dissenter Sakharov) gravity is a "shadow effect" similar to the 
Casimir Effect of quantum electrodynamics. Bass points out that if the Haisch-
Puthoff-Rueda theory is correct then Hodowanec's idea of tapping the earth's 
gravity field in some electromagnetic way not hitherto suggested is 
conceivable. - Joel McClain
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Puthoff and his collaborators have gone so far as to use SED (Stochastic 
Electro-Dynamics) to _explain_ both gravitational & inertial mass and to show 
their equivalence, and to derive Newton's F = Ma, and to derive Mach's 
principle (without which Einstein admitted that no theory of gravity could 
claim to be complete), and to derive Dirac's "cosmological numerical 
coincidences" as inevitabilities, and to derive Newtonian gravity, and to 
derive the Newton-Cavendish parameter G!!! -- Robert Bass
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It is an amazing coincidence that the total Newtonian gravitational potential 
energy of any object due to all masses in the universe is equal in magnitude 
to its total energy, at least to within a small factor, considering that this 
involves an expression involving multiple factors of the order of 10 to the 
40th power. This was pointed out by Dirac in his Large Numbers Hypothesis, and 
used as part of a beautiful illustrative theory by Dennis Sciama [1], in which 
he constructs a theory of gravity closely analogous to the classical theory of 
electromagnetism, and shows that inertia can be directly attributed to the 
gravitational effect of accelerating relative to the gravitational potential 
sources of the whole universe (or indeed of accelerating the whole universe 
relative to the object, because in Sciama's theory, the two points of view are 
equivalent). This theory is obviously consistent with Mach's Principle (which 
is effectively that inertial motion is in some sense relative to the rest of 
universe). Sciama's theory is only a simplified approximation, but it is so 
neat that it seems likely that some similar principle must apply also within 
General Relativity. However, one of its most basic implications is that the 
gravitational "constant" G would depend on the distribution of matter in the 
universe, which seems to be in direct conflict with GR. I personally think GR 
is probably not quite right. -- Jonathan Scott

[1] D.W.Sciama, "On the Origin of Inertia", M.N.R.A.S. Vol. 113, p34, 
1953.
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GENERAL RELATIVITY & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, ABSTRACT GR-QC/9412012 From: "Haret 
Rosu" 
Date: 3 Dec 94 19:36:00 CST
Classical and quantum inertia: a heuristic introduction, 
Author(s): Haret C. Rosu
Report: IFUG-27/94,
Comments: 20 pages, LaTex 11pt, no figures. 
A non-technical discussion of the problem of inertia is provided both in 
classical physics and in the quantum world. After briefly reviewing the 
classical formulations (WEP, EEP, and SEP), I pass to a presentation of the 
equivalence statements for quantum vacuum states. One can also find a number 
of related comments and suggestions.
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Krech, Michael.
The Casimir effect in critical systems / Michael Krech. Singapore ; River 
Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c1994. x, 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: 
QC173.4.C74 K74 1994
SUBJECTS: Critical phenomena. Casimir effect. ISBN: 9810218451

Cavity quantum electrodynamics/edited by Paul R. Berman. Boston : Academic 
Press, c1994. xvi, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: QC446.2 .C38 1994
SUBJECTS: Quantum optics. Quantum electrodynamics. Casimir effect. ISBN: 
0120922452 (alk. paper)

Long-range Casimir forces : theory and recent experiments on atomic systems 
Edited by Frank S. Levin and David A. Micha. New York : Plenum Press, c1993. 
LC CALL NUMBER: QC680 .L63 1993
SUBJECTS: Casimir effect.
ISBN: 0306443856

Physics in the making : essays on developments in 20th century physics: in 
honour of H.B.G. Casimir on the occasion of his 80th birthday/ edited by A. 
Sarlemijn and M.J. Sparnaay. Amsterdam : North-Holland; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 
: Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 
1989. xiv, 361 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: QC7 .P48 1989
SUBJECTS: Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909- 
Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909- Sarlemijn, Andries, 1936-
Sparnaay, M. J. (Marcus Johannes)
ISBN: 0444881212
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Edwards-Casimir Quantum Vacuum Drive --
A hypothetical drive exploiting the peculiarities of quantum mechanics by 
restricting allowed wavelengths of virtual photons on one side of the drive 
(the bow of the ship); the pressure generated from the unrestricted virtual 
photons toward the aft generates a net force and propels the drive. ----------
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CONDENSED MATTER, ABSTRACT COND-MAT/9505108 From: moraes@guinness.ias.edu 
(Fernando Moraes) Date: Tue, 23 May 95 17:12:35 EDT
Enhancement of the magnetic moment of the electron due to a topological defect
Author(s): Fernando Moraes (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) 
In the framework of the theory of defects/three-dimensional gravitation, it is 
obtained a positive correction to the magnetic moment of the electron bound to 
a disclination in a dielectric solid. With the disclination modelled as a 
parallel plate casimir effect.

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - THEORY, ABSTRACT HEP-TH/9212077 From: 
milton@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Kim Milton) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:13:13 CST
MAXWELL-CHERN-SIMONS CASIMIR EFFECT, KIMBALL A. MILTON, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS 
AND ASTRONOMY, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 
In odd-dimensional spaces, gauge invariance permits a Chern-Simons mass term 
for the gauge fields in addition to the usual Maxwell-Yang-Mills kinetic 
energy term. We study the Casimir effect in such a (2+1)-dimensional Abelian 
theory. For the case of parallel conducting lines the result is the same as 
for a scalar field. For the case of circular boundary conditions the results 
are completely different, with even the sign of the effect being opposite for 
Maxwell-Chern-Simons fields and scalar fields. We further examine the effect 
of finite temperature. The Casimir stress is found to be attractive at both 
low and high temperature. Possibilities of observing this effect in the 
laboratory are discussed. 

GENERAL RELATIVITY & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, ABSTRACT GR-QC/9303038 PHYS. REV. D 
48, 776 (1993)
FROM: LFORD@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 17:47 EDT
MOTION OF INERTIAL OBSERVERS THROUGH NEGATIVE ENERGY, BY L.H. FORD AND THOMAS 
A. ROMAN,
Recent research has indicated that negative energy fluxes due to quantum 
coherence effects obey uncertainty principle-type inequalities of the form 
$|\Delta E|\,{\Delta \tau} \lprox 1\,$. Here $|\Delta E|$ is the magnitude of 
the negative energy which is transmitted on a timescale $\Delta \tau$. Our 
main focus in this paper is on negative energy fluxes which are produced by 
the motion of observers through static negative energy regions. We find that 
although a quantum inequality appears to be satisfied for radially moving 
geodesic observers in two and four-dimensional black hole spacetimes, an 
observer orbiting close to a black hole will see a constant negative energy 
flux. In addition, we show that inertial observers moving slowly through the 
Casimir vacuum can achieve arbitrarily large violations of the inequality. It 
seems likely that, in general, these types of negative energy fluxes are not 
constrained by inequalities on the magnitude and duration of the flux. We 
construct a model of a non-gravitational stress-energy detector, which is 
rapidly switched on and off, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of such 
a detector. 

GENERAL RELATIVITY & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, ABSTRACT GR-QC/9304008 PHYS. REV. D 
47, 4510 (1993).
FROM: LFORD@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 12:56 EDT
SEMICLASSICAL GRAVITY THEORY AND QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS, BY CHUNG-I KUO AND L. 
H. FORD.
We discuss the limits of validity of the semiclassical theory of gravity in 
which a classical metric is coupled to the expectation value of the stress 
tensor. It is argued that this theory is a good approximation only when the 
fluctuations in the stress tensor are small. We calculate a dimensionless 
measure of these fluctuations for a scalar field on a flat background in 
particular cases, including squeezed states and the Casimir vacuum state. It 
is found that the fluctuations are small for states which are close to a 
coherent state, which describes classical behavior, but tend to be large 
otherwise. We find in all cases studied that the energy density fluctuations 
are large whenever the local energy density is negative. This is taken to mean 
that the gravitational field of a system with negative energy density, such as 
the Casimir vacuum, is not described by a fixed classical metric but is 
undergoing large metric fluctuations. We propose an operational scheme by 
which one can describe a fluctuating gravitational field in terms of the 
statistical behavior of test particles. For this purpose we obtain an equation 
of the form of the Langevin equation used to describe Brownian motion.

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - PHENOMENOLOGY, ABSTRACT HEP-PH/9307258 From: 
langfeld@ptsun1.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Kurt Langfeld) Date: Tue, 13 
Jul 93 08:04:30 +0200
CASIMIR EFFECT OF STRONGLY INTERACTING SCALAR FIELDS, BY K. LANGFELD, F. 
SCHMUSER, AND H. REINHARDT
Non-trivial $\phi ^{4}$-theory is studied in a renormalisation group invariant 
approach inside a box consisting of rectangular plates and where the scalar 
modes satisfy periodic boundary conditions at the plates. It is found that the 
Casimir energy exponentially approaches the infinite volume limit, the decay 
rate given by the scalar condensate. It therefore essentially differs from the 
power law of a free theory. This might provide experimental access to 
properties of the non-trivial vacuum. At small interplate distances the system 
can no longer tolerate a scalar condensate, and a first order phase transition 
to the perturbative phase occurs. The dependence of the vacuum energy density 
and the scalar condensate on the box dimensions are presented.

GENERAL RELATIVITY & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, ABSTRACT GR-QC 9310007 PHYSICA SCRIPTA 
48, 649 (1993)
FROM: harald@nordita.dk (Harald H. Soleng) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 93
INVERSE SQUARE LAW OF GRAVITATION IN (2+1)-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME AS A 
CONSEQUENCE OF CASIMIR ENERGY, H. H. SOLENG, 
The gravitational effect of vacuum polarization in space exterior to a 
particle in (2+1)-dimensional Einstein theory is investigated. In the weak 
field limit this gravitational field corresponds to an inverse square law of 
gravitational attraction, even though the gravitational mass of the quantum 
vacuum is negative. The paradox is resolved by considering a particle of 
finite extension and taking into account the vacuum polarization in its 
interior. 

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - THEORY, ABSTRACT HEP-TH/9312069 From: segui@cc.unizar.es
Date: Thu, 9 DEC 93 13:50 GMT
A MODIFIED SCHWINGER'S FORMULA FOR THE CASIMIR EFFECT, M.V. COUGO-PINTO, C. 
FARINA AND ANTONIO J. SEGUI-SANTONJA
After briefly reviewing how the (proper-time) Schwinger's formula works for 
computing the Casimir energy in the case of "scalar electrodynamics" where the 
boundary conditions are dictated by two perfectly conducting parallel plates 
with separation "a" in the Z-axis, we propose a slightly modification in the 
previous approach based on an analytical continuation method. As we will see, 
for the case at hand our formula does not need the use of Poisson summation to 
get a (renormalized) finite result.

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - THEORY, ABSTRACT HEP-TH/9401123 From: segui@cc.unizar.es
Date: Tue, 25 JAN 94 21:47 GMT
SCHWINGER'S METHOD FOR THE MASSIVE CASIMIR EFFECT, BY M.V. COUGO-PINTO, C. 
FARINA AND A.J. SEGUI-SANTONJA
We apply to the massive scalar field a method recently proposed by Schwinger 
to calculate the Casimir effect. The method is applied with two different 
regularization schemes: the Schwinger original one by means of Poisson formula 
and another one by means of analytical continuation.

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - THEORY, ABSTRACT HEP-TH/9405060 From: Shtykov Nikolay 
 Date: Tue, 10 May 94 17:40:50 JST
THE FINITE VACUUM ENERGY FOR SPINOR, SCALAR AND VECTOR FIELDS, N.SHTYKOV 
We compute the one-loop potential (the Casimir energy) for scalar, spinor and 
vectors fields on the spaces $\,R^{m+1}\, \times\,Y$ with $\,Y=\,S^N\,,CP^2$. 
As a physical model we consider spinor electrodynamics on four-dimensional 
product manifolds. We examine the cancelation of a divergent part of the 
Casimir energy on even-dimensional spaces by means of including the parameter 
$\,M$ in original action. For some models we compare our results with those 
found in the literature.

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - THEORY, ABSTRACT HEP-TH/9408172 From: 
LFORD@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 16:45:05 -0400 (EDT) DECOHERENCE AND VACUUM 
FLUCTUATIONS, L.H. FORD, TUFTS UNIVERSITY 
The interference pattern of coherent electrons is effected by coupling to the 
quantized electromagnetic field. The amplitudes of the interference maxima are 
changed by a factor which depends upon a double line integral of the photon 
two-point function around the closed path of the electrons. The interference 
pattern is sensitive to shifts in the vacuum fluctuations in regions from 
which the electrons are excluded. Thus this effect combines aspects of both 
the Casimir and the Aharonov-Bohm effects. The coupling to the quantized 
electromagnetic field tends to decrease the amplitude of the interference 
oscillations, and hence is a form of decoherence. The contributions due to 
photon emission and to vacuum fluctuations may be separately identified. It is 
to be expected that photon emission leads to decoherence, as it can reveal 
which path an electron takes. It is less obvious that vacuum fluctuations also 
can cause decoherence. What is directly observable is a shift in the 
fluctuations due, for example, to the presence of a conducting plate. In the 
case of electrons moving parallel to conducting boundaries, the dominant 
decohering influence is that of the vacuum fluctuations. The shift in the 
interference amplitudes can be of the order of a few percent, so experimental 
verification of this effect may be possible. The possibility of using this 
effect to probe the interior of matter, e.g., to determine the electrical 
conductivity of a rod by means of electrons encircling it is discussed. 
(Presented at the Conference on Fundamental Problems in Quantum Theory, 
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, June 18-22, 1994.) 

GENERAL RELATIVITY & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, ABSTRACT GR-QC/9410043 PHYS. REV. D 
51, 4277(1995).
FROM: FORD@TUHEP.PHY.TUFTS.EDU
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 20:33 EST
AVERAGED ENERGY CONDITIONS AND QUANTUM INEQUALITIES, L.H. FORD AND THOMAS A. 
ROMAN
Connections are uncovered between the averaged weak (AWEC) and averaged null 
(ANEC) energy conditions, and quantum inequality restrictions on negative 
energy for free massless scalar fields. In a two-dimensional compactified 
Minkowski universe, we derive a covariant quantum inequality-type bound on the 
difference of the expectation values of the energy density in an arbitrary 
quantum state and in the Casimir vacuum state. From this bound, it is shown 
that the difference of expectation values also obeys AWEC and ANEC-type 
integral conditions. In contrast, it is well-known that the stress tensor in 
the Casimir vacuum state alone satisfies neither quantum inequalities nor 
averaged energy conditions. Such difference inequalities represent limits on 
the degree of energy condition violation that is allowed over and above any 
violation due to negative energy densities in a background vacuum state. In 
our simple two-dimensional model, they provide physically interesting examples 
of new constraints on negative energy which hold even when the usual AWEC, 
ANEC, and quantum inequality restrictions fail. In the limit when the size of 
the space is allowed to go to infinity, we derive quantum inequalities for 
timelike and null geodesics which, in appropriate limits, reduce to AWEC and 
ANEC in ordinary two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We also derive a quantum 
inequality bound on the energy density seen by an inertial observer in four-
dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The bound implies that any inertial observer 
in flat spacetime cannot see an arbitrarily large negative energy density 
which lasts for an arbitrarily long period of time.

GENERAL RELATIVITY & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, ABSTRACT GR-QC/9411053 From: "Haret 
Rosu" 
Date: 20 Nov 94 21:15:00 CST
On the assignment of frequency spectra to quantum vacuum effects, Author: 
Haret C. Rosu, Report: IFUG-25/94, 
I discuss in an introductory manner, i.e., in the form of comments on 
available references, the problem of assigning frequency spectra to such 
fundamental effects like Casimir, Hawking, Unruh, and squeezing effects. This 
may help to clarify their differences as well as their similarities.

GENERAL RELATIVITY & QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, ABSTRACT GR-QC/9411056 From: 
ulvi@tapir.Caltech.EDU (Ulvi Yurtsever) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 15:56:11 -0800
The averaged null energy condition and difference inequalities in quantum 
field theory, by: Ulvi Yurtsever
Recently, Larry Ford and Tom Roman have discovered that in a flat cylindrical 
space, although the stress-energy tensor itself fails to satisfy the averaged 
null energy condition (ANEC) along the (non-achronal) null geodesics, when the 
``Casimir-vacuum" contribution is subtracted from the stress-energy the 
resulting tensor does satisfy the ANEC inequality. Ford and Roman name this 
class of constraints on the quantum stress-energy tensor ``difference 
inequalities." Here I give a proof of the difference inequality for a 
minimally coupled massless scalar field in an arbitrary two-dimensional 
spacetime, using the same techniques as those we relied on to prove ANEC in an 
earlier paper with Robert Wald. I begin with an overview of averaged energy 
conditions in quantum field theory.

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