Re: Faster than light?

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:06:06 -0800 (PST)


Amara Graps writes:
>Hey you're right! Forward: _Future Magic_, last chapter. The Casimir
>Effect is described in there. It was experimentally verified in the 1950's.
>Why was I never taught this in quantum mechanics?

I was taught this when I was a physics grad student at U. Chicago 81-84.
I even presented that experiment paper to a class. At the time our
teacher thought that the experiment had never been replicated.

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/