Casimir Effects: Peter Milonni's lecture at the Institute for Quantum Computing

In a guest lecture at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing, Dr. Peter Milonni of the Los Alamos National Laboratory explains Casimir effects.

Casimir effects are generally regarded as manifestations of zero-point energies of quantum fields. The best-known Casimir effects are those associated with the electromagnetic vacuum field; these are of great current interest not only for basic physics but also for their implications for nanotechnology. Following a brief review of the concept of zero-point energy, and experimental evidence for it, attention is be focused on the most famous Casimir effect---the force between two perfectly conducting plates---and the extension of the theory to dielectric materials.

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[KakHazhar]

@MattBurton1987 "but there's no violation of relativity because no information is being transmitted" lol (laughed out low).

[KakHazhar]

Great lecture. 

[bassist118]

This could also explain 'dark energy' if more energy is acting on the outside of the strips pushing them in than on the inside pushing out then the universe which contains all the 'zero point' energy (I think its the actual fabric of space-time) pusing out into nothing just like water fills whatever is holding it.

[bassist118]

The energy thats being produced and repaid if accordance with Heisenberg uncertainty relations is the fabric of space-time.

[Kaeralho]

@prophetofthenow how so? what plates?

[prophetofthenow]

casimir effect maybe the very reason of what happens at the bermuda triangle, two plates causing a casimir effect

[physivic]

@MattBurton1987

If laughing at that is not cool, then you can just go ahead and not call me Miles Davis

[lucasoesterreich]

Great lecture, made even more great by the fact that Dr. Milonni used a hockey stick to teach Quantum Physics.

O Canada.

[MattBurton1987]

You'd have to be immensely nerdy to chuckle at the joke he made about the books expanding at the rate of a logarithmic scale lollll