As with all my posts that involve theoretical physics this one comes from a point where I was so exhausted that my mind was beyond organized linear thought and opened up to the possibilities of the universe. (Lest you scoff at my method, take a moment and use your rational mind and try imagining a 7 dimensional sphere. I have very high spacial perception and with a lucid mind it’s extremely hard, and makes my head hurt. Conversely, try to talk to someone who at any point of the day or night can conceive of such high dimensional objects, and see how lucid and linear they are in a sustained conversation.)
Moving on, scientists theorize that there are far more than the 4 observable dimensions. I will not go into how many, etc, but the reason that we can not perceive them is they are “currently believed” to be too small for us to interact with. However, I realized that the effect observed in the Casimir and Polder experiments might be explained by more than 4 dimensions. Since the space between the plates in the experiment is very, very small, it might be possible that it is reducing the effective size of the fourth dimensional world to a point where the interaction of the other dimensions can be seen.
It would be interesting to put a point source of light between the plates and see what happens. (Co60 as a point source could be very interesting.) Similarly shining hard UV or X-ray laser light between the plates is likely to produce some interesting effects.
This effect has potential to improve the storage of data in a non-magnetic manner. Since the head of a hard drive moves at a distant where if it were not for the magnetic fields the Casimir effect would have significant strength.
Also there is the possibly of designing new kinds of shielding for high energy photons, using nanomaterials.
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