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Published online 4 May 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060501-7
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Popular physics myth is all at sea
Does the ghostly Casimir effect really cause ships to attract each other?
Some stories are just too good to be true. And according to physicist Fabrizio Pinto, that's exactly the case for an analogy routinely used by physicists to illustrate the mysterious Casimir effect.
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