Re: Parity Eotvos experiments--a few facts

In sci.physics, Eric Gisse
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on 6 Sep 2005 22:00:08 -0700
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> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>> In sci.physics, Eric Gisse
>> <jowr.pi@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on 6 Sep 2005 18:08:03 -0700
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>> >
>> > Traveler wrote:
>> >> Uncle Dickhead wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> By what mechanism would the chiral atoms interact which each other?
>> >> >
>> >> >Not with each other, with spacetime - if spacetime has a chiral
>> >> >component. Newton 1/r^2 would obtain unchanged. Nobody knows how
>> >> >chiral bodies (single crystal maximal parity, with CHI=1) fall.
>> >> >Nobody has ever looked. In two weeks we will have looked.
>> >>
>> >> What an ineducable moron you are, Uncle Dickhead! Spacetime is an
>> >> abstract math concept. Nothing interacts with it for the simple reason
>> >> that it does not exist. Why is that so hard for you to understand,
>> >> moron?
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> > Casimir effect.
>> >
>>
>> I'm not sure if that's a property of space, or a property of matter
>> in empty space, but it's rather an interesting effect, and might
>> be Yet Another Reason Why My Theoretical Capacitor (Disproving
>> Feerguy9's Ridiculous Assertions If You Remember Him At All) Won't
>> Even Begin To Work Correctly. :-)
>>
>> I have to agree that spacetime is an abstract concept, but the
>> force is there, regardless.
>
> I have always wanted to see a test of the speed of light tested such
> that the path of the photons goes through a nontrivial length of
> Casimir plates.
>
> Things like the Casimir effect, which makes "nothing" do "something",
> absolutely fascinate me.

Another piece of the weirdness of the Universe, I guess. :-)

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