THE CRiTiCaL CaSimiR EFFECT UNIVERSAL FLUCTUATION - INDUCED FORCES aT WORk
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It is well known that nothing comes from nothing. In physics, however, this is not always the case. Surprisingly indeed, two electrically neutral conducting metallic plates placed in vacuum about half a micrometer apart attract each other, even at zero temperature, due to a force which was theoretically predicted in 1948 by the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir [1]. This force originates from the quantum mechanical fluctuations of the electromagnetic field in vacuum so, apparently, from nothing.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009