An experimental atomic physicist who measured the Casimir force between conducting surfaces in 1997. His electromechanical apparatus used a torsion pendulum to detect the weak attraction over separations of roughly 0.6–6 micrometres. The experiment tested a consequence of changing the allowed electromagnetic field fluctuations by changing boundaries, connecting quantum electrodynamics to a directly measured mechanical force.[ref]
Demonstration of the Casimir Force in the 0.6 to 6 micrometre Range by S. K. Lamoreaux. Abstract: torsion-pendulum apparatus and comparison with vacuum-stress prediction; 1998 erratum also listed in source record
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