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 <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 >> > > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/aa3b5126-19d6-4b6a-901a-a2266feec9bd%40googlegroups.com.
