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Water, Ions, Membranes, Real Metals, Finite Temperature:<br />

Is there ever a pure Casimir force?<br />

Adrian Parsegian 1<br />

1 National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0924<br />

Tu-1430<br />

The powerful idea <strong>of</strong> vacuum fluctuations strictly confined between ideal metals<br />

dominates the psychology <strong>of</strong> much thinking about electrodynamic forces. In fact, most<br />

systems reveal interactions that depend on material properties wherein fluctuations<br />

penetrate unto permeate interacting bodies. This talk will attempt to delineate<br />

the conditions under which true Casimir forces can be expected as compared with the<br />

material-based van der Waals forces formulated by Lifshitz, Dzyaloshinskii, and<br />

Pitaevskii, then generalized by their descendents.<br />

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