Re: the Classical Casimir effect

On Feb 11, 10:29 pm, "Edward Green" <spamspamsp...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[I myself hear fallacy yapping all around, but just out of the field
of vision]

I am with you on this. The referenced page is in terms of
zero point energy. The effect is not that different from
Van der Waals or London force. Better analysed as
a classical force.

Casimir effects result from changes in the ground-state
fluctuations of a quantized field that occur due to the
boundary conditions. Casimir effects occur for all quantum
fields and can also arise from the choice of topology. In
the special case of the vacuum electromagnetic field with
dielectric or conductive boundaries, various approaches
suggest that Casimir forces can be regarded as macroscopic
manisfestations of manybody retarded van der Waals
forces [7], [9].

Zero-point field energy density is a simple and inexorable
consequence of quantum theory, but it brings puzzling
inconsistencies with another well [?] verified theory,
general relativity. >>
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0407153

Again... the mass (or energy equivalent) that pushes
back when you push a car is not the air surrounding
or the remaining vacuum if the air is removed.

When you localise the the true agent of inertia
in a pseudo-space, you can't experimentally
detect the agent. It is the moon and Jupiter ect.

Zero point energy is a big goose-egg in my book. ;-)
Results 1 - 10 of about 14 for "zero point energy" 511MeV. (0.36
seconds)

Sue...

[?]
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html
http://einstein.stanford.edu/

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