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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I wonder how two plates in such a nothing would act?
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well apparently a force is measured known as the Casimir effect. The initial experiments conducted by Casimir and his co-worker predicted a net attractive force between the plates, when all other factors were taken into consideration,.
Its a very difficult experiment to carry out. It requires two pates which are perfectly parallel, perfect conductors (which dont exist) and a perfect vacuum (which also doesnt exist.)
I believe that most of the experimental results had large error bars when compared with the theory. But eventually in the 1950s experiments were repeated with about 5% accuracy and fitted the theoretical predictions very well.
Its an interesting experiment, based on Quantum theory, which predicts that virtual particles should be spontaneously and randomly emerging and then anhialating one another before vanishing again. This should produce a measurable effect in the Lab.