So that brings us to what is being measured in the Casimir experiments today. Fran says I have argued that thermodynamics in combination with electrostatic charging is the source of the Casimir effect. That was my first attempt to explain the Casimir effect without the ZPF.
You can force two like-charged balloons together and they will stick since parts of each balloon induces spots of opposite charge on small areas of the other balloon.---But that is just the problem---You have to force them together, then they stick. This is the problem with saying that Van der Waal's Forces of Distraction are caused by a Summation of London Forces over an extended area. Saying that Van der Waal's Forces cause the Casimir Force makes as much sense as maintaining that the Path of the Earth Around the Sun causes both Gravity and Inertia! Unfortunately, Casimir did not conserve EM energy and this has been going on by his followers for over a half century. Why does he have to conserve energy. This whole business is based on the idea that there is always the same amount of em vanishing from the Universe as is appearing.--Or they simply say "It doesn't count because it is so brief!" which is truly absurd. Besides: Isn't the Big Bang just a kind of end-run around Mass-Energy Conservation. If the Big Bang gets a pass on these laws because it started outside the realm of this Universe and its Laws---then why may I not posit a Theory of Little Pops (little Big-Bangs so-to-speak!) Google Quantum-Flux and Big Bang and you find that the Big-Bang Theory still requires a Quantum-Flux to generate Matter.---Why is everybody so sure that this process has stopped? You don't even need a Big Bang if you have enough "Little Pops" Evidence that this is so!!! The Earth Grows!!! http://www.nealadams.com/nmu.html _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/
