The Zeropoint Field: No Longer a Ghost

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Scientific Paper
Title The Zeropoint Field: No Longer a Ghost
Author(s) Trevor W Marshall
Keywords Zero Point Energy
Published 2008
Journal ArXiv

Abstract

We develop a local realist analysis of parametric down conversion, based on the recognition that the pump field, instead of down converting spontaneously, does so through its nonlinear coupling with a real zeropoint, or ?vacuum? electromagnetic field. The theory leads to the prediction of a new phenomenon ? that, in addition to the main downconversion rainbow, there is a satellite rainbow, whose intensity is about 3 per cent of the main one. Confirmation of this prediction will call seriously into question the current description of the light field in terms of photons.