Charles Liu

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Okay, please continue.

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Charles, you take this one.

Amazing.

I haven't heard about the Scharnhorst effect being asked in a very long time.

A scientist named Scharnhorst, I think it was around 1990 or so, hypothesized that if you took two perfectly smooth metal plates and brought them within a millimeter or a millionth of a millimeter within one another –

You would create zones because of the quantum fluctuations of the universe where the index of refraction was less than one.

What it practically means is that in those tiny zones that are only a fraction of an inch across, the speed of light could actually exceed the speed of light in vacuum.

This would be a hypothetical.

There's been no way to be able to test it, and the effect is tiny.

So it would be one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent faster than the speed of light in vacuum across this zone, which was less than a millionth of an inch across.

So it's this really neat effect that if we could test it,

It would be neat to find.

Unfortunately, we cannot create, at least as far as we know, if the Scharnhorst effect is true, these kinds of pumped spaces that our questioner is asking.

Because the causality and the speed of light and the stuff like that at those micro levels cannot translate into a macro level thing like being able to draw energy from nothing.