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Engineers Unveil First Casimir Chip That Exploits The Vacuum Energy

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#1 Logic

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Posted 07 August 2012 - 01:09 PM


Nanofabrication engineers have built the first on-chip device that exploits the Casimir effect:
http://www.technolog...-that-exploits/

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Posted 07 August 2012 - 01:30 PM

Nanofabrication engineers have built the first on-chip device that exploits the Casimir effect:
http://www.technolog...-that-exploits/


It would be more impressive if they had figured out some way of using it for computation or as a detector.

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Posted 07 August 2012 - 01:34 PM

yep. Every little bit helps tho!

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Posted 07 August 2012 - 01:44 PM

You could conceivably build an anharmonic oscillator with it to give you a random output.




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