Blackbody Attraction (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Blackbody Attraction

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The blackbody attraction between a hot tungsten cylinder and a cesium atom is 20 times stronger than the gravitational attraction between them.

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Holger Müller, UC Berkeley

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