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However, no engineer has yet proposed to build an electrostatic motor that would be nearly as powerful as Ayn Rand suggested.
However, no engineer has yet proposed to build an electrostatic motor that would be nearly as powerful as Ayn Rand suggested.
==== The Casimir motor ====
The [[motion picture]] adaptation, ''[[Atlas Shrugged, Part 1]],'' gave a more detailed suggestion of how an electrostatic motor might work. Specifically, it employed a variation on the Casimir Effect, which classically is an attraction between two metal plates brought close together. In fact, an Israeli scientist actually proposed building a "quantum propulsion engine" that employs the Casimir Effect.<ref name=casimir>Feigel A, "[http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1031 A magneto-electric quantum wheel]," ''Quantum Physics'', 5 December 2009.Cited in "[http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24499/ A Blueprint for a Quantum Propulsion Machine]," ''Physics ArXiv Blog,'' 9 December 2009. Cited in turn in Dillow C, "[http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/quantum-propulsion-machine Practical Steps Toward a Quantum Propulsion Machine]," ''Popular Science'', 9 December 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2011.</ref>
=== The strike as a political movement ===
=== The strike as a political movement ===