Filling the void: the Casimir effect. Posted: Mar 27, 2008 09:00:41
... force conjured up out of the nothingness-the Casimir force. Hendrik Casimir is a Dutch physicist. In 1948, when QED was still a ... between the plates was gratifyingly small: about that exerted by a speck of dust lying on a bench top. Also gratifying was the cost of ...