When I first heard about the Casimir effect I remembered reading about some Russian inventor working with honeycomb type natural structures.
https://www.rexresearch.com/grebenn/grebenn.htm
In 2021, interesting information appeared on the Internet, which added facts.
Let's start in order:
Viktor Grebennikov is generally an expert on insects, he did not really understand theoretical physics.
Grebennikov is an artist, writer, sculptor, popularizer, dreamer, but not a techie.
Serious scientific theories were put forward by his companion, professional physicist Valentin Zolotarev.
Together with Grebennikov, he wrote 2 scientific articles. I assume that Zolotarev included Grebennikov as a co-author only because it was necessary to popularize his theories. If you try to download and translate, there is very professional physics text, you should be prepared for this.
1. "Theory of field radiation of multicavity structures" 1988
Influence of De Broglie waves on the formation of elementary particles. Close to quantum physics.
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the EPS field consists of displayed de Broglie standing waves, i.e. these waves are not emitted if there is no radiation from material particles.
https://greencapitalcity-narod-ru.translate.goog/unknown/Data/Anomal/Html/tech/eps_theory.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp2. "Fast processes in the environment of physical vacuum as a source of physical phenomena" 1988–1991
Quantum physics, structure of physical vacuum, quantum basis of gravity.
https://ru.djvu.online/file/LFwzw48MlQ2mTNothing more was known about Zolotarev
until recently.In 2021, the daughter of Valentin Zolotarev posted a biography of her father on the Internet, which lists numerous scientific articles.
https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/post/566074/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wappOriginal:
https://habr.com/ru/post/566074/Based on this, it became clear that Zolotarev worked at the main university of the USSR, engaged in nanotechnology in the 70s of the 20th century.
"F.V. Lukin State Research Institute of Physical Problems". At that time, this university was studying the possibility of using biological microstructures or creating synthetic analogues. Therefore, Zolotarev was probably attracted to the insect science that Grebennikov was studying.
Probably Zolotarev developed photomatrices for first special cameras. This is clear from reading the list of his works.
These photo matrices were very primitive. They were a line of 1000x1 photocells, only 1000 pixels. Nonsense by today's standards, when mobile phone cameras have tens and even hundreds of millions of pixels.
https://www-155la3-ru.translate.goog/k1200.htm?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wappThe pixel lines were probably installed on satellites that photographed the Earth's surface. Scanning was carried out by the satellite's movement in orbit, while the Earth's surface was constantly shifting. It wasn't only the USSR that created such things; the US also made, I think, even more advanced devices.
The elements of such a first matrix are probably relatively large, micrometers.
Of course, in those ancient times, they could not have technologies that allow the creation of structures measuring several nanometers, as now in processors from AMD or Intel.
But the vertical structure of the photocells layers could probably have been very small.
A list of works by Zolotarev, in which, it seems to me, he could observe the influence of De Broglie waves, Casimir forces and other quantum effects, and even anti-gravity effects:
33. Method for studying adhesion levels in photosensitive translucent films
49. Method for determining the parameters of sticking levels
56. Method for determining adhesion levels in translucent films
92. Parameters of sticking levels in amorphous selenium
127. Method for studying adhesion levels in photosensitive translucent films
Why can adhesion in microstructures be related to the Casimir effect? - probably because Casimir discovered this effect when he was creating colloidal solutions to coat magnetic tapes at Phillips, where he worked at the time, and he was having trouble with it because of particle agglomeration. So he discovered the law of why this was impossible. Metal particles stuck together under the action of the Casimir force.
The numbering corresponds to the list in the article:
https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/post/566074/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wappConclusions:
- probably Grebennikov's anti-gravity structures had very, very small dimensions, nanometers.
- Larger structures Grebennikov demonstrated as a model, and as a way of influencing the biostructures of humans and insects, which, in his opinion, are very sensitive.
- could Zolotarev somehow secretly manufacture nanostructures at his place of work at the research institute? Some kind of hidden technology?
- could Grebennikov obtain such structures, in the range of nanometers and less, from natural materials?
I think that Grebennikov presented his fantasies as reality, and his friend Zolotarev dreamed that his theoretical works would be accepted sometime in the future.