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The quantum vacuum fluctuations, also known as the zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic field, is a well-established phenomenon that has been validated by many experiments proving their physical impact. One experimental confirmation is the Casimir effect, where two mirrors in vacuum experience a force due to the cavity between the plates that eliminates a percentage of the vacuum fluctuations modes producing an energy gradient that results in a force pushing the plates towards each other. The Swinger effect is another example, in which by applying to the vacuum an electromagnetic field above the Schwinger limit, electron-positron pairs experience sufficient separation to overcome the cyclical annihilation process and can be observed. For this reason the effect has been alluded to as creating particles out of the vacuum. Additionally, two photons can be combined to produce an electron-positron pair (the Breit-Wheeler effect), and this has been experimentally measured in 2021 at the Large Hadron Collider. More recently, the experimental validation of the dynamical Casimir effect, where two mirrors are oscillated at near relativistic speed to effectively pump the vacuum fluctuations and extract real photons out of it. allows direct observational evidence of the vacuum fluctuations, therefore removing all the remaining confusion about the origin of the Casimir effect. In our recent study entitled The origin of mass and the Nature of Gravity it is explained how the coherency of these vacuum fluctuations at the scale of the proton are responsible for the proton’s rest mass. Under a different picture, this work shows that the proton can be considered as a resonant cavity generating a Casimir force equivalent to an energy gradient by eliminating the short wavelength of vacuum fluctuations, such that when we sum over all the cavity resonant modes we obtain once again the mass of the proton, and demonstrating as well that the nuclear confining force analogous to the Casimir effect also arises from the quantum vacuum fluctuations dynamics of the zero-point field. Download the paper at the CERN preprint server to learn more - https://lnkd.in/eSKP8cuQ

The Origin of Mass and the Nature of Gravity

The Origin of Mass and the Nature of Gravity

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