You know like the kind that go on a window or bathroom mirror or on the wall or in the shower. They need the atmosphere pushing down on them to work, right?
You know like the kind that go on a window or bathroom mirror or on the wall or in the shower. They need the atmosphere pushing down on them to work, right?
Just a technicality, but the Casimir effect would still provide some adhesive force. It would be greatly reduced vs a suction cup in an atmosphere, but it wouldn’t be 0 force.
Though in microgravity, it might be enough to stick something to a surface, as long as it’s not getting bumped or jostled. And don’t expect it to stay in place if you need to do a maneuvering burn.
Edit: fixed word
Yes the Casimir Effect.
Any good answer to a high school science question begs for a graduate level rebuttal.
Ah thanks for the spelling, swipe typing had Kashmir already so I thought that was right. Corrected above.
And yeah, even in high school I was lucky to have a physics teacher that liked delving deeper into the topics than what’s normally done at that level because my mind seems to naturally seek out those edge cases where rules as given break down. Still hoping we find one of those cases for the laws of thermodynamics lol.