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DTSTART:20111028T203000Z
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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
SUMMARY:Nature Adorns a Vacuum: The Casimir Force\, Physics Department
  Colloquium\, Steve Lamoreaux\, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:In 1948\, Hendrik Casimir showed that two perfectly conduc
 ting parallel plates will be mutually attracted.  This attraction is d
 ue to the modification of the the electromagnetic field mode structure
  between the plates\, which leads to a change in the zero point energy
  of the field.  It has only been within the last 15 years that this fo
 rce has been measured to good precision\, and recently the effect of f
 inite temperature (300 K) has been measured\, for the first time\,  in
  our laboratory at Yale.  The notion that boundaries can affect the ze
 ro point energy of a system has broad application throughout physics\,
  and some applications will be discussed\, along with an overview of o
 ur experimental work.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=2131
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