{"id":2325,"date":"2009-04-29T03:58:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T08:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2009-04-29T03:58:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T08:58:46","slug":"the-casimir-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2325","title":{"rendered":"The Casimir Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metamodern.com\/2009\/04\/20\/casimir-effect-and-nanomachines\/\">The Casimir Effect and Nanomachines<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In London\u2019s terminology, the van der Waals\/London\/Casimir-Polder\/Lifshitz interaction is a dispersion force, but it sounds far more exciting and mysterious when called \u201cthe Casimir effect\u201d and described in terms of zero-point energy and quantum-mechanical vacuum fluctuations. Cranks find it fascinating and hucksters profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Casimir Effect and Nanomachines In London\u2019s terminology, the van der Waals\/London\/Casimir-Polder\/Lifshitz interaction is a dispersion force, but it sounds far more exciting and mysterious when called \u201cthe Casimir effect\u201d and described in terms of zero-point energy and quantum-mechanical vacuum &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}