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    selbstverständlich Agloco's Avatar
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    Ok......another exciting result to report.

    I hope this isn't too voodoo for most here. They do a good job of explaining the Casimir Effect simply.

    http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-...om-almost.html

    The experiment shows that the Casimir effect is not just theory; named after Dutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir who along with Dirk Polderfirst first proposed back in the late 1940’s, the idea of a force that existed in a vacuum; a force that should, if manipulated just right between two plates, or mirrors, result in the creation of photons.

    The thinking goes that in any vacuum, virtual particles come into existence and then disappear on a constant ongoing basis; and they do so in waves. The Casimir effect proposes that if two very tiny mirrors were to be placed very close together; close enough that the distance between them would be smaller than the length of some of the virtual waves, a force would be created as the number of particles outside of the space between the mirrors grows higher than the number that exists between them, causing a pull on the mirrors, dragging them closer together. The force that is created, it has been theorized, could then be used to generate photons.

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    Are you suggesting a Zero Point Module?

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    That quantum foam so to speak happens on the plank length. Do they have to make the array that small? I dont see how they could but if they have thats unbelievable!

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    nano's gonna deliver some science fiction stuff.

    if wild nano particles don't kill us first.

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    some cool nano stuff



    http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57...20&tag=nl.e703

    for WC:

    The research was conducted for the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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    some cool nano stuff



    http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57...20&tag=nl.e703

    for WC:

    The research was conducted for the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
    Free energy? Alright!

    Wait wait... the government was involved! BAH! FIE!

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    some cool nano stuff



    http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57...20&tag=nl.e703

    for WC:

    The research was conducted for the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
    Next thing you know, NIKE will file a patent to use the material as the next great shoe insert... to create lighter than air sneakers...

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    I would also add that Agloco's le is misleading (perhap's facetiously playful) in the sense that a vacuum still has energy... and AFAIK energy is still considered 'something'...

    He did include the 'almost' modifier... so I guess there's that...
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    ....

    Double post

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    Yes, we all know only Baby Jesus can create light from nothing.

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    W4A1 143 43CK? Nbadan's Avatar
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    This is how vertex get open...

    ....incidentally, those pesky engineered nano-termite spheres found all other The WTC buildings.....thoooooooooooose are science fiction!

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    selbstverständlich Agloco's Avatar
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    That quantum foam so to speak happens on the plank length. Do they have to make the array that small? I dont see how they could but if they have thats unbelievable!
    Indeed.

    I would also add that Agloco's le is misleading (perhap's facetiously playful) in the sense that a vacuum still has energy... and AFAIK energy is still considered 'something'...

    He did include the 'almost' modifier... so I guess there's that...
    There's some semantic debate about what cons utes "something". A vacuum is supposedly "nothing", which we have now shown to contain "something". Is there ever, then, the absence of "something"?

    That's for another discussion though.

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