We compare the results of capacitance measurements in the lens-plane and sphere-plane configurations with theoretical predictions from various models of a spherical surface. It is shown that capacitance measurements are incapable of discriminating between models of perfect and modified spherical surfaces in an experiment demonstrating the anomalous scaling law for the electric force. Claims to the contrary in the recent literature are explained by the use of irregular comparison. The data from capacitance measurements in an experiment measuring the Casimir force using a micromechanical torsional oscillator are shown to be in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions using the model of a perfect spherical surface.
@article{arxiv.0904.4720,
title = {Capacitance measurements and electrostatic calibrations in experiments measuring the Casimir force},
author = {R. S. Decca and E. Fischbach and G. L. Klimchitskaya and D. E. Krause and D. López and U. Mohideen and V. M. Mostepanenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.4720},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
15 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; minor changes are made in accordance with the published version