On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 8:21:30 AM UTC-5, 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 >
If the two Casimir plates are grounded there will be no electrostatic potential between them. Elementary electricity. LC -- 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/0e3b1301-81e7-4804-ac1b-5030967cfdc1%40googlegroups.com.
