sci.physics.cond-matter

On 1 Sept, 10:53, "Mike Bass" wrote in
:
> First, I would like to thank everyone for their time on reading this and for
> any replies I might receive.
>
> I'm a writer and I'm currently working on a Sci-Fi screenplay. I need
> something that is a half-way believable new energy source. I have come up
> with something and would greatly appreciate any opinions you might have.
>
> The new energy is called "time-energy". The concept is that gravity is not a
> fundamental force but a by-product of the flow of time with time moving in
> only a forward direction.
>
> Because time flows in one direction, the movement could be used for energy.
> Imagine time as wind. The energy of the movement of wind is captured by
> windmills and turned into useful power. The catalyst for exploiting the
> movement of time would be harmonics. Isolate some space, put a vacuum on it
> and lower it to absolute zero. Concentrate a harmonic beam on the enclosed
> vacuumed space and it starts particles jumping in and out of existence and
> causes vibrations. The more concentrated the beam the more the vibration
> escalates. Then you collect the energy from the heat the vibrations create.

I think the introduction of "time wind" makes your idea too sci-FI. If
you want it to be, rather, SCI-fi, you may consider a case where
gravity does indeed make heat produce work:

When two opposite charges, or the plates of a capacitor, are immersed
in water, the attraction between them decreases considerably. W.
Panofsky and M. Phillips ("Classical Electricity and Magnetism",
Addison-Wesley, Massachusetts, 1962, pp. 111-116) explained the effect
in terms of a very strange PRESSURE that develops between the plates.
This pressure has a non-electrical nature ("the decrease in force....
cannot be explained by electrical forces alone"), pushes the plates
apart and so counteracts the original electrical force of attraction,
possibly at the expense of heat absorbed from the surroundings. If the
plates are only partially immersed (fig. 6-7 on p. 112), the same
pressure pushes the liquid between the plates upwards so that this
liquid rises high above the surface of the pool. The rising liquid
could then fall outside the capacitor and the energy of the (eternal?)
waterfall could be used.

Pentcho Valev