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Loading...We have shown throughout "The Imagineer’s Chronicles" that observations of our environment indicate a vacuum contains a measurable quantity of continuous non-quantized form of mass/energy.
One of these observations is called the Casimir effect.
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The Casimir effect is a small attractive force, which acts between two close parallel-uncharged conducting plates, which many physics believe is due to quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field.
According to modern physics, a vacuum is full of fluctuating electromagnetic waves of all possible wavelengths, which imbue it with a vast amount of energy. Casimir realized that between two plates, only those electromagnetic waves whose wavelengths fit a whole number of times into the gap should be counted when calculating the vacuum energy. As the gap between the plates is narrowed, fewer waves can contribute to the vacuum energy and so the energy density between the plates falls below the energy density of the surrounding space. The result is a tiny force trying to pull the plates together. This force, which has been measured, provides proof of the existence of the quantum vacuum. This is because Quantum theory requires that each of these vibrations be quantized and therefore the field, at each point in space would be a simple harmonic oscillator that has the energy of the particle associated with the force that Casimir observed to be pushing the plates together.
In1924 Louis de Broglie theorized all particles have a wave component. His theory was later confirmed when in 1927 Davisson and Germer observed electrons are diffracted by crystals. The means according to the laws of classical physics there must exist a continuous physical medium because waves by definition can only be propagated on a continuous medium. However, the experimentally confirmed the equivalence between mass and energy means that a continuous non-quantized form of mass must also exist.
However, the fact that all particles have a continuous wave component allows one to define the of the simple harmonic oscillator or quantum fields responsible for the Casmir effect in terms of classical mechanics.
Classical wave mechanics tell us all waves must have a physical medium made up of mass/energy to enable them to propagate. Additionally observations of waves in a classical environment indicate the number of simple harmonic oscillators that can be established in a given environment is dependent on the distance or "gap" between the "end points" of their environments.
In the article ”Why is mass and energy quantized?“ Oct.4, 2007 it was shown one can derive the particle or quantum properties of mass/energy in terms of a classically resonating "structure" or system generated by a matter wave in a continuous form or field of mass/energy.
The quantum fields generated by these resonate "structures" are responsible for the force Casimir theorized would exist in gap between two closely spaced plates.
This is because the number of simple harmonic oscillators or quantum fields in the space between two plates would, according to classical wave mechanics decreases as the gap between them decreases. In other words, the smaller the gap between the plates the fewer number of quantum fields or particles that gap could support.
However, this means there will be a greater number simple harmonic oscillators or quantum fields impacting the plates from outside of the gap than between it. This will cause a force that will push the plates together because the energy density associated with quantum fields outside of the gap would be greater than inside of it.
Therefore, the Casimir effect provides observational evidence that a vacuum contains a measurable quantity of a continuous non-quantized form of mass/energy because it would explain how the simple harmonic oscillators that modern physicists associate with quantum fields could cause an attractive force between to plates in terms of Classical Wave Mechanics.
Later Jeff
The Shadows of four spatial dimensions"
Copyright 2008 Jeffrey O’Callaghan
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The Casimir effect is a small attractive force which acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates. It is due to quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. Though it’s neither particularly spectacular nor actually a surprising computational result, it is one of these cases where quantum effects tamper with our classical intuition.
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Hi, cool site, good writing
Maybe Casimir effect by itself doesn’t seem all that spectacular but diffuse some hydrogen atoms into a rigid catalyst or saturated into a metal lattice and the effect is very much involved with decades of reported anomalies involving excess heat.
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