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Z.P.E. definition (condensed)

Didier A. Depireux didier at Glue.umd.edu
Wed Jan 13 11:48:19 EST 1999


Didier A. Depireux (didier at Glue.umd.edu) wrote:
: Richard Sargent (dsargent at ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: : energy source is discovered.]  Is anyone familiar with contemporary
: : research on Zero Point Energy?

: the fact that if you put, in a perfect vacuum, two metal plates close to
: each other and that they would attract each other, has been measured
: indirectly only, by looking at the van der Waals forces in real gases (the

I stand corrected. S.K.Lamoreaux, in Phys Rec Lett 78 (1) (1997), pp 5-8,
made a direct measurement of the Casimir effect, showing a macroscopic
effect of something which can be explained only by QED. No useable force,
but still it _was_ measured directly.

							Didier

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Didier A Depireux                              didier at isr.umd.edu
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