Repulsive Forces

I just saw today the table of contents for the February 2009 issue of Physics Today. In the "Search and Discover" section one finds an article with this title:

Casimir forces between solids can be repulsive

It's past my bedtime so this seemed much funnier than it will tomorrow morning. Now I can giggle myself to sleep thinking about Casimir forces and how yucky they are.

(Don't make me come over there and point out that "repulsive", meaning "tending to repel", in this instance means repelling as the north poles of two magnets might repel each other.)

Posted on February 4, 2009 at 01.06 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Briefly Noted

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Friday, 6 February 2009 at 01.01
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    Sounds to me like something digestive and unpleasant.

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