[FRIAM] "free energy"

[steve smith]

Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Steve Smith wrote:
>   
>> I'm a little too steeped
>> in classical statistical physics to easily imagine we are going to
>> find/create/harness a "limitless source of free energy which does
>> not require an increase of entropy to exploit".
>>     
> Some fun related stuff..
>
> http://www.quantumfields.com/gedanken%20spacecraft.pdf
>   
Holy Shit Batman.  I'm a huge fan of Bob Forward both as a scientist and 
a science/technology evangalist.  This is work I was unfamiliar with and 
who could resist a tile such as "GedankenSpacecraft" !

> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/291/5510/1941
>   

And double-holy-shit, I am just looking more closely at the performance 
envelope of MEMS based micromirror arrays (TI DLPs) and here you hand me 
nano-scale Casimir-effect mediated (sub)micromirror array actuators.

So, you have me sufficiently distracted... everyone, carry on and finish 
paving the planet, I believe that in a post-human embodiment, I can 
outrun the paving of the universe on my GedankenSpacecraft!   How long 
is a lifetime anyway?  And my progeny?  They are well educated and even 
young, they can come with me.

- Steve