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Physical Mechanisms Underpinning the Vacuum Permittivity

Published:2023-02-08 Issue:1 Volume:5 Page:179-192
ISSN:2624-8174
Container-title:Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Physics

Author:

Leuchs Gerd¹²^ORCID,Hawton Margaret³^ORCID,Sánchez-Soto Luis L.¹⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

2. Institut für Optik, Information und Photonik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

3. Department of Physics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada

4. Departamento de Óptica, Facultad de Física, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Abstract

The debate about the emptiness of space goes back to the prehistory of science and is epitomized by the Aristotelian ‘horror vacui’, which can be seen as the precursor of the ether, whose modern version is the dynamical quantum vacuum. In this paper, we suggest to change a common view to ‘gaudium vacui’ and discuss how the vacuum fluctuations fix the value of the permittivity, ε0, and permeability, μ0, by modelling their dynamical response by three-dimensional harmonic oscillators.

Funder

Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/5/1/14/pdf

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