Vacuum Fluctuations and the Casimir Effect
Physics Frontiers
English - April 27, 2017 00:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MB - ★★★★ - 102 ratingsPhysics Science physics gravitation quantum mechanics materials Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jim and Randy discuss how vacuum fluctuations produce the van der Waals forces and the Casimir effect. Van der Waals forces are factors in atomic bonds and the Casimir effect produces an attractive force between nanoscale objects. The claim is that vacuum fluctuations -- the production and annihilation of particle-antiparticle pairs -- are the underlying reason for both effects.
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