ZP OWER C ORPORATION PAGE OF 352 Z ERO P OINT E NERGY Some Definitions The Quantum Mechanical Vacuum First we need some definitions. We start by assuming the quantum mechanical vacuum) Empty "spacetime" is filled with an incredibly intense flux of virtual particles. It is a plenum, not an emptiness. We shall be interested only in the fantastic flux of virtual photons, for we are discussing electromagnetics. Energy and Potential Energy is any ordering, either static or dynamic, in the virtual particle flux of vacuum. EM energy is any ordering, either static or dynamic, in the virtual photon flux (VPF) of vacuum. That is, fora particular kind of "field" energy, we simply choose the so-called quantum particle of that field, and consider only that kind of virtual particle flux. Potential is any ordering, either static or dynamic, in the virtual particle flux of vacuum. Hey That's exactly the same definition as energy. Quite correct. Energy and potential are identically the same. Neither is presently defined correctly in physics. Energy is normally defined as "Energy is the capacity to do work" That's totally false. Energy has the capacity to do work, because work is correctly defined as the dissipation (disordering scattering) of energy (order. The scattering of energy is work. It is not energy I.e., energy is not definable as its own scattering Look at it this way A man has the capacity to catch fish. That is true, but it is not a definition, since a definition must in some sense bean identity. You cannot say that a man is the capacity to catch fish That maybe a submitted definition, all right, but it is false. Similarly, energy has the capacity to do work that is one of its attributes. But energy IS the ordering in the VPF (we are referring from now on primarily only to EM. Scalar and Vector Potentials The scalar potential is any static (with respect to the external observer) ordering in the VPF of vacuum. The vector potential is any dynamic (with respect to the external observer) ordering in the VPF of vacuum. We shall be interested in the electrostatic scalar potential. So it is a static ordering __ a stationary template __ in the VPF of vacuum, much as a whirlpool is a stationary ordering (template, form) in the rushing flow of a river.