{"id":88398,"date":"2019-03-05T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-force-is-with-us-always-tuning-quantum-vacuum-forces-from-attractive-to-repulsive"},"modified":"2019-03-05T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:03:28","slug":"the-force-is-with-us-always-tuning-quantum-vacuum-forces-from-attractive-to-repulsive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-force-is-with-us-always-tuning-quantum-vacuum-forces-from-attractive-to-repulsive","title":{"rendered":"The force is with us, always? Tuning quantum vacuum forces from attractive to repulsive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-force-is-with-us-always-tuning-quantum-vacuum-forces-from-attractive-to-repulsive2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The force is strong not only in Star Wars lore but also as a fundamental property in physics. For example, scientists can put two uncharged metal plates close together in a vacuum, and \u201cvoila!\u201d \u2014-they will attract each other like Luke Skywalker and his trusted lightsaber.<\/p>\n<p>In 1948, Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrick Casimir first predicted an attractive force responsible for this effect\u2014later dubbed the Casimir effect. A half-century later, in 1996, the Casimir force was experimentally measured for the first time by Steve Lamoreaux at Los Alamos National Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>But just like the light and dark side of the force in Star Wars, scientists have wondered, can there be an equal yet opposite kind of Casimir force?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-tuning-quantum-vacuum-repulsive.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-tuning-quantum-vacuum-repulsive.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The force is strong not only in Star Wars lore but also as a fundamental property in physics. For example, scientists can put two uncharged metal plates close together in a vacuum, and \u201cvoila!\u201d \u2014-they will attract each other like Luke Skywalker and his trusted lightsaber. In 1948, Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrick Casimir first predicted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}