Casimir effect The Van der Waals force Diamagnetism The Unruh effect The following SED-based calculations and SED-related claims are more controversial and some have been subject to published criticism: The ground state of the harmonic oscillator The ground state of the hydrogen atom De Broglie waves Inertia Gravitation Non-locality and tests of Bell's theorem Zero point energy According to Haisch and Rueda, inertia arises as an electromagnetic drag force on accelerating particles, produced by interaction with the zero-point field. In their 1998 Ann. Phys. paper (see citations), they speak of a "Rindler flux", presumably meaning the Unruh effect, and claim to have computed a nonzero "z.p.f. momentum". This computation rests upon their claim to compute a nonzero "z.p.f. Poynting vector". These proposals for zero-point energy suggest a source of low or no cost free energy from the vacuum as well as the hope of developing a reactionless drive. NASA continues to make assessments: In the usual interpretation of vacuum energy it is not possible to use it to do work. However, SED takes a rather more literal, classical interpretation, and views the very high energy density of the electromagnetic vacuum as propagating waves, which must necessarily carry considerable energy and momentum flux, ordinarily not evident in the absence of matter, because the flux is isotropic. Fictional references Arthur C. Clarke describes a "SHARP drive" (for Sakharov, Haisch, Rueda and Puthoff) in his 1997 novel "3001: The Final Odyssey". See also Stochastic quantum mechanics References Further reading on-line version from Haisch's website physics/9802030 gr-qc/0504061 External links California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics, a physics organization founded by Bernard Haisch H. E. Puthoff, Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations: A New Rosetta Stone of Physics? H. E. Puthoff, Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations: A New Rosetta Stone of Physics? Fringe physics Quantum field theory Emergence