Terry,
To echo Mark, Great Find although the authors may have greatly
undervalued their discovery [snip]the greatly enhanced magnetic anisotropy of
the well-aligned magnetic nanochains implies their potential applications in
the fields of magnetic records, magnetic switches, etc. [/snip]
This sounds like a method to change nano geometry using a magnetic field such
that any gas atoms migrating through this geometry would experience a change in
supression value if the geometry is acute enough to form Casimir
geometry..since Casimir initially was assigned to explain why colloids like
paint and mayonnaise bind together it is very likely a method to make Casimir
force dynamic [DCE]. Jones has been on about this possibility for a long time
and this appears to confirm his posit.
>From http://www.casimir-network.fr/IMG/pdf/Casimir_20effect.pdf [snip] These
>are viscous materials, such as paint and mayonnaise, that contain
micron-sized particles in a liquid matrix. The properties of such solutions are
determined by van der Waals forces – long-range, attractive forces that exist
between neutral atoms and molecules. One of Casimir’s colleagues, Theo
Overbeek, realized that the theory that was used at the time to explain van der
Waals
forces, which had been developed by Fritz London in 1932, did not properly
explain
the experimental measurements on colloids. Overbeek therefore asked Casimir to
investigate the problem. Working with Dirk Polder, Casimir discovered that the
interaction between two neutral molecules could be correctly described only if
the
fact that light travels at a finite speed was taken into account. Soon
afterwards,
Casimir noticed that this result could be interpreted in terms of vacuum
fluctuations.
He then asked himself what would happen if there were two mirrors[/snip]
Fran
