In reply to Francis X Roarty's message of Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:05:14 -0500: Hi Francis, [snip] >http://www.byzipp.com/animaTime.htm
Quote:- "Normal QED theory states that the displaced longer wavelength fluctuations are replaced with shorter wavelength fluctuations." I don't think they are actually "replaced". The shorter wavelengths are simply all that are left over when the long ones are excluded. The short ones exist both inside and outside the cavity, the long ones only outside. It's the long ones on the outside that push the plates together. The force is so small because the long ones are weaker than the short ones (longer wavelength = lower frequency = less energy / photon), and they represent only the lower energy tail of the spectrum (and it's a very small tail at that, when you consider that the top end of the spectrum may be on the order of 1E43 Hz.) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
