ZP OWER C ORPORATION PAGE OF 352 Z ERO P OINT E NERGY Q UANTUM F LUCTUATIONS C REATE S ILENT U PROAR I N S PACE Z ERO P OINT E NERGY W OULD S OLVE M ANY P ROBLEMS O F P HYSICS A T O NE S TROKE BY M ICHAEL O DENWALD IN V EREIN D EUTSCHER I NGINIEURE , D USSELDORF J ULY 19, 1991 Abstract It sounds like a fable heaters heat and automobiles roll and create not a gram of pollution driven by a mysterious energy. This same power will make laptop computers more powerful than today's supercomputers and will revolutionize other technologies. The fantastic thing here is this super energy which is supposed to do all these things originates in empty space. Article US researchers Harold Puthoff, Ken Shoulders and Bill Church from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Austin, Texas forecast this utopia. The basis of their ideas is vacuum energy, a power which fills the entire universe and probably underlies all material existence. If the theories of the three researchers prove out they would eliminate all worries about energy forever. They would also solve some of the greatest puzzles of cosmology and particle physics including the question of the nature of gravitation. In the telescopes of the astronomers the universe appears majestically quiet and empty, only spotted here and thereby massive world islands. Quantum theory, on the other hand, shows a different, much more bizarre view of the cosmos. It deals with the microcosm of subatomic particles. At the level of particles, like electrons, protons and neutrons, space is not empty, but a boiling sea of energy that fills the space between atoms and molecules as well as between the stars. Particles jump like spray in a foaming ocean, like lightning leaping out of an insubstantive energy bath into the material world. With equal rapidity these particles fallback into the sea of energy and disappear (physicists speak of "virtual particles, because they have no existence in the world of real particles. In this minute instant of their existence, these ghost particles send out a weak pulse of