On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 7:21:30 AM UTC-6, 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 <agrays...@gmail.com> 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 >
It was in 2005. If the Casimir effect can be explained without appeal to vacuum energy, wouldn't it be a violation of Occam's Razor to invoke its existence as the cause? 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9d5b4f77-4cd4-4028-920e-c3cad1061b12%40googlegroups.com.
