On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 7:21:30 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 5:22:23 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:39 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Could it be the case that Casimir plates attract each other due to >>> electrostatic forces and not vacuum energy? >> >> >> Of course not! Don't you thing getting rid of electrostatic forces would >> be the very first thing any even halfway competent experimental scientists >> would think of before he even dreamed of performing such a super delicate >> experiment? >> >> John K Clark >> > > Experiments done on the space shuttle and in Germany (where free fall is > simulated) have shown that dust particles accumulate due to electrostatic > forces, thus changing the model for how planets formed. And if you read the > excerpt from the Wiki article I posted, MIT physicists, in 1997 IIRC, were > able to explain the Casimir effect without appealing to vacuum energy. AG >
It was in 2005. If the Casimir effect can be explained without appeal to vacuum energy, wouldn't it be a violation of Occam's Razor to invoke its existence as the cause? AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9d5b4f77-4cd4-4028-920e-c3cad1061b12%40googlegroups.com.
