Where Science Meets Fiction
Merging renewable energy into daily life.
On September 14, 2015, two mirrors at LIGO – each suspended on glass fibers inside a four-kilometer evacuated tube – moved relative to each other by approximately one-thousandth the diameter of a proton. The displacement lasted under a second. It was caused by two black holes that merged 1.3 billion light-years away, releasing in that…
In 1997, a physicist named Steve Lamoreaux placed two metal plates inside a vacuum chamber, separated them by less than a micrometer, and measured the force between them. The plates were uncharged. The space between them was as empty as any space on Earth can be made. The force they felt had no business existing…