baileyr25 writes:
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The casimir effect refers to a small attractive force which acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates due to quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field.
Um, bailey?
Where does the fluctuation come from?
That's right...it causes itself.
That's one of the jiggy things about QM: Things happen not because something made them happen but because there's no reason for them not to happen. There is a probability that a particle will be somewhere and every now and then you win the lottery and it shows up.
There is a non-zero chance that you will simply re-materialize one foot to the left. Not because anything made you but because there's no reason for you not to.
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