[SunkenCiv]

[Credit and Copyright: Umar Mohideen (U. California at Riverside)]

[martin_fierro]

Ah, the old mayonnaise-micro-mechanical machine parts-universe connection.

[shibumi]

"...the Casimir Effect, named for its discoverer, who, 55 years ago, was trying to understand why fluids like mayonnaise move so slowly."

Mayonnaise, along with many other sauces and dressings can be observed to move much more quickly when in the presence of Golabki (served on March 4th of each year in honor of the feast of St Casimir.)

Mayo, tomato sauce, hot sauce, gravy, tzatziki and many others move with significant rapidity in this environment.

[Praxeologue]

If dark energy is being created and it drives matter apart causing the expansion of the universe, then, working in reverse, the universe never had a beginning and there never was a big bang.

Forces are transmitted through dark matter at far greater speeds than the speed of ight, calling into question the general theory.

[ETL]

I’ve speculated for nearly 2 decades now, in an amateur cosmologist sort of way, that the force of gravity, whose true fundamental nature is still basically unknown, other than Einstein referring to it as a “warpage” of space-time, is somehow related to the Casimer effect.

That an object’s presence, in some way, removes energy out of the (*so-called) ‘empty’ vacuum of space, thereby creating an access of energy around the object resulting in a “negative pressure” situation much like in the Casimir effect. The net positive pressure around the object creates a ‘well’ (like sink water and an open drain) which draws objects in the vicinity of the object (negative energy well) towards it, like tiny particles floating in sink water going down a drain.

*space of course is not really empty, but rather seething with quantum energy.

[rawcatslyentist]

A magical unlimited energy source that requires no fuel.

Where have we heard that one before?