“ And now it looks as if they got one. Francesco Intravaia and a pal at Potsdam University in Germany say that making the plates outta a particular combination of metamaterials does the trick, turning the Casimir force from an attractive one into a repulsive force. In particular, one of the plates must be a dielectric while the other is permeable, which could be achieved by engineering them on the nanometre scale, says Intravaia.
Wasted Nothing
byproducts of interconnected turing machines.
November 13, 2007