On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 10:19:52 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > 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 >
I'm not sure how the MIT physicist did the experiment. I just know the claim; that he accounted for the forces on the plates without need of appealing to vacuum energy. I'll see if I can find the paper and post it. 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/aa3b5126-19d6-4b6a-901a-a2266feec9bd%40googlegroups.com.
