the casmir affect and disrupting gravity

[raburgeson]

The recent news article saying this is only good for small objects, (presently). That's very well good enough for a start. I had some training as a chip doper, now I just have to ask this question. Does anyone see a reason that this cannot be applied to the manufacture of those far superior Gallium computer chips that they said had to be made in space because they can't construct them in an environment were there is gravity?

[Koen1]

The recent news article saying this is only good for small objects, (presently).

What recent news article? Do you have a url perhaps?

That's very well good enough for a start. I had some training as a chip doper, now I just have to ask this question. Does anyone see a reason that this cannot be applied to the manufacture of those far superior Gallium computer chips that they said had to be made in space because they can't construct them in an environment were there is gravity?

Well without the article I can't really answer that...

[raburgeson]

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=77451

http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/split/811-1.html

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/021029.Fischbach.Casimir.html

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/06/1212259&from=rss

http://digg.com/general_sciences/Scientists_Have_Solved_The_Mystery_of_Levitation   With picture

Sorry worn keyboard missed and i and didn't catch it. This is causing such a big buzz on the net the searchbot should have taken you to it anyway.

[Koen1]

Well, to be honest only the first and last link you gave are actually interesting,
(http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=2&ContentID=77451
and http://digg.com/general_sciences/Scientists_Have_Solved_The_Mystery_of_Levitation)
and they both link to the same article from the 7th of june about some mysterious
"casimir lens" that is claimed to produce casimir repulsion instead of the normal
attraction.
But nothing usefull is said about the lens itself, nor about how it works.

All the other articles as well as part of that main article are crap.
They are popularised explanations of casimir force jotted down by enthousiastic
authors that clearly did not know much if anything at all about the phenomenon
before they started on their articles.
The possible (plausible? probable? obvious?) connection between the casimir force
and gravity has been made long ago, if not by Casimir himself already.
Speculation on using or influencing the casimir effect to alter local gravity effects is
also nothing new.

It may be interesting to study this casimir "lens" they claim to have developed further,
but untill we know what it actually is, it seems to me that speculation on how to apply
this "lens" discovery to gallium chip poduction is quite useless.