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Synopsis: Plasma Mirror Mimics Evaporating Black Hole
- ridgeguy 10y agoThis seems to share at least some engineering commonality with a demonstration of the dynamic Casimir effect [1], in which an accelerated superconducting region functions as a moving mirror, generating microwave photons out of quantum vacuum fluctuations. I think it's cool and amazing that we can experimentally investigate such phenomena with tabletop experiments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect#Dynamical_Casimir_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect#Dynamical_Casim...