Ontological aspects of the Casimir Effect
(2014)
Journal Article
Simpson, W. M. R. (2014). Ontological aspects of the Casimir Effect. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 48(Part A), 84-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.001
The role of the vacuum, in the Casimir Effect, is a matter of some dispute: the Casimir force has been variously described as a phenomenon resulting “from the alteration, by the boundaries, of the zero-point electromagnetic energy” (Bordag, Mohideen,... Read More about Ontological aspects of the Casimir Effect.