The reins of Casimir: Engineered nanostructures could offer way to control quantum effect
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 12:30
in Physics & Chemistry
You might think that a pair of parallel plates hanging motionless in a vacuum just a fraction of a micrometer away from each other would be like strangers passing in the night -- so close but destined never to meet. Thanks to quantum mechanics, you would be wrong.