Moontanman Posted June 6, 2011 Posted June 6, 2011 The Casimir effect used to create photons! http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-researchers-create-light-from-almost.html
Athena Posted June 7, 2011 Posted June 7, 2011 The Casimir effect used to create photons! http://www.physorg.c...rom-almost.html Really nice Moontanman. It is hard to imagine how this could not impact our lives. Sometimes knowledge changes our lives in unpredicted ways.
michel123456 Posted June 10, 2011 Posted June 10, 2011 (edited) What is the difference with the MIR experiment? from this article you can download the pdf if problem with the above link. MIR: An experiment for the measurement of the dynamical Casimir effect In this paper we report the status of the experiment MIR (Motion Induced Radiation), aimed at the experimental verification of the dynamical Casimir effect. The stringent theoretical requirements to observe the effect are satisfied in a scheme in which the conductivity of a semiconductor inside a superconducting microwave resonant cavity is varied in time. Free carriers in the semiconductor are periodically excited and recombine at 5 GHz. In this process vacuum and thermal photons are parametrically amplified in a time interval of 200-500 ns. Edited June 10, 2011 by michel123456
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