Experimental Verifications of the Casimir Attractive Force between Solid Bodies
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A brief review of the recent experimental verifications of the Casimir force between extended bodies is presented. With modern techniques, it now appears feasible to test the force law with precision better than 1%; I will address the issues relating to the theoretical interpretation of experiments at this level of accuracy.
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