Table of Contents
1. Introduction...........................................................................................................................22. Philosophical background.....................................................................................................3
2.1. Static fields versus Theory of Relativity........................................................................3
2.2. A circulation of energy of the electrostatic field..........................................................10
2.3. A circulation of energy of the magnetostatic field.......................................................14
3. Theoretical fundament of the energy-flux...........................................................................20
3.1. Vacuum-energy in Quantum mechanics.......................................................................20
3.2. Connection with the classical model of vacuum-energy..............................................22
3.3. New microscopic model for the electromagnetic part of the vacuum-energy..............23
3.4. The energy-flux of electric and magnetic fields in the vacuum, regarded from the viewof QED’s zero point oscillations........................................................................................30
3.5. Comparision of the QED-model with other models.....................................................33
4. Experiments to convert vacuum-energy into classical mechanical energy.........................36
4.1. Concept of an electrostatic rotor..................................................................................36
4.2. First experiments for the conversion of vacuum-energy..............................................41
4.3. Experimental verification under the absence of gas-molecules...................................504.4 “Over-unity“ criterion for the exclusion of artefacts.....................................................57
5. Outlook to the future...........................................................................................................68
5.1. Magnetic analogue with the electrostatic rotor............................................................68
5.2. Rotor with rigidely fixed axis of rotation.....................................................................73
5.3. Outlook to imaginable applications..............................................................................80
6. Summary.............................................................................................................................83
7. References...........................................................................................................................84
7.1. External Literature.......................................................................................................84
7.2. Own publications in connection with the present work...............................................90
7.3. Cooperations and private communication....................................................................92