The Casimir force is the most famous mechanical effect of vacuum fluctuations. Consider the gap between two plane mirrors as a cavity ( figure 1 ). All electromagnetic fields have a characteristic ...

A repulsive quantum force, opposite of casimir force, has been verified and measured. This is the cover story, [Measured long-range repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz forces], of the Jan 8, 2009 Nature ...

Discovered in 1948, Casimir forces are complicated quantum forces that affect only objects that are very, very close together. They're so subtle that for most of the 60-odd years since their ...

Fabrizio Pinto is part of Interstellar Tech corp has been looking into trying to trying to create an engine by making use of the Casimir force. No Casimir force-based engine cycle could be devised if ...

The thermal Casimir force – whereby two objects feel an attraction caused by thermal fluctuations of the electromagnetic field – has been measured for the first time by physicists in the US. The tiny ...

The Casimir effect, predicted in 1948 by Dutch physicist Hendrick Casimir, is a force that pushes together two plates of metal placed near each other in empty space – or a vacuum. The closer the ...

Since Casimir forces can cause the moving parts of MEMS to stick together, Dalvit says, “One of the holy grails in Casimir physics is to find geometries where you can get repulsion” rather ...

This experiment was a stunning display of the invisible quantum world, and this phenomenon became known, quite rightly, as the Casimir effect.It’d be another 50 years before the Yale physicist ...

In 1948, Hendrik Casimir predicted that a generalized version of van der Waals forces would arise between two metal plates due to quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. These forces ...

The Casimir effect, a long-standing point of study in quantum physics, refers to this unavoidable physical force that exists between the objects, ...