{"id":7944,"date":"2011-02-14T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7944"},"modified":"2011-02-14T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:00:59","slug":"the-vacuum-is-an-interesting-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7944","title":{"rendered":"The Vacuum is an Interesting Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2011\/02\/vacuum-has-friction-from-effect-similar.html\">Vacuum has friction from an effect similar to the casimir effect<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The phenomenon of vacuum friction for spinning objects is somewhat different than for the static parallel plates: the accelerating charges in a spinning conductive object interact with the vacuum fluctuations and can emit photons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A quick scan of <a href=\"http:\/\/nanophotonics.csic.es\/static\/publications\/pdfs\/paper166.pdf\">the paper<\/a> (pdf) indicates that the thermally radiated photons have a different net angular momentum than the ones absorbed from the reservoir, i.e. the effect is that the emitted light has a net polarization which carries off the angular momentum as the particle slows down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacuum has friction from an effect similar to the casimir effect The phenomenon of vacuum friction for spinning objects is somewhat different than for the static parallel plates: the accelerating charges in a spinning conductive object interact with the vacuum &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7944\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944","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=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}