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Encuentro con investigadores

'Why is Warm Glass Stickier than Cold Glass?'

17.09.2013 | 12.00h

Aula Magna da Facultade de óptica e optometría

What we think of as "empty" space is really filled with a fluctuating electric field. These tiny electric fields are spooky-seeming but entirely real. They give rise to the stickiness of a perfectly clean glass surface. I'll talk about a set of experiments we did on this so-called Casimir-Polder force; time permitting I'll explore connections to eschatology as well.