Energy of the Vacuum

Zero point Energy

Half light Energy

Twilight Energy

Ultraviolet Catastrophe

Whither Cyber Punk

Wither Cyber Punk

Casimir Effect

Lamb Shift

The Theory of Nothing

Let us speculate that vacuum energy pervades space and that introducing a physical object affects the vacuum energy. Let us further speculate that the presence of an object in space disrupts the orderly flow and distribution of vacuum energy in space. Finally, let us speculate that just as the flow of air over a surface can produce lift, that the flow of vacuum energy over and through a physical object produces an attractive force which we will call gravity. A different line of speculation would involve the thinking that gravity and inertia are produced by impeding the flow of vacuum energy. Just as impeding the flow of air can cause changes in pressure.

If you look out on a lake on a day with a slight breeze, you will note that there are islands of calm and rippled water right next to one another for no readily discernible reason. Now we may speculate that subsurface phenomena such as upwellings and seeps might cause this behavior in come cases. Perhaps gravity and inertia have similar root causes. In which case the main body of ether like water, would be the vacuum energy that pervades space. The upwellings would be gravity and inertia and they would be caused by the presence of physical objects.

If we carry the fluid mechanics analogy in a different direction, we have long lasting wave phenomenmon such as solitons and Jupiter's great read spot. Perhaps then gravity and inertia are solitons in a zero point energy sea.

Yet another way of looking at things is this: suppose that one exceeds the speed of nothing in the presence of matter. Exceeding the speed of nothing causes a shock wave which we call gravity or inertia. Nothing is a relative term. Since the vacuum energy pervades everything we know, it is present even when no physical object is present. If we see this background vacuum energy as having motion then could paradoxically speak of the speed of nothing. Some say the motion of the ocean of energy would stream out from every object. Some say it would stream into every object. Some say it would oscillate like a spring.