Casimir Effect Outside a Lab Answered

Does anybody know how to go about recreating the Casimir effect outside a lab?

Say I have a vacuum chamber and two copper plates. I want to create the Casimir effect within the vacuum chamber, Only problem is that to do so, from my understanding, I'd have to have the copper plates within nanometers of each other, I've heard of methods using oscillating crystals...can anyone help me?

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steveastrouk

5 years ago

The plates aren't, they are long-ROC spheres, otherwise its impossible to bring them together with the required, nanometric precision to observe the effect.

ted_gress

Answer 5 years ago

Right. That all makes sense except I'm not sure what a long-ROC sphere is?????

steveastrouk

Answer 5 years ago

Radius of Curvature