If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

The Casimir effect —a small attractive force that acts between two uncharged parallel conducting plates brought into close proximity—is the clearest example of the existence of zero-point energy (ZPE). The effect can only be explained in terms of quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field.

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