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"The Casimir effect is a small attractive force which acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates,  It is due to quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field."  From "What is the Casimir Effect?" by Philip Gibbs. 

The equation for calculating the attractive Casimir force between two plates of area A separated by a distance L is shown below.  The length and area were chosen to be the quantum wavelength for dimensional analysis purposes.

The above equation is the equation apparently used by the Dutch physicist Hendrick Casimir in 1948.  In 1996, Steven Lamoreaux conducted an experiment that verified the Casimir Effect equation to within 5%.

Looking at the equation above, we see the h*c in the numerator.  In the Aether Physics Model, h*c is equal to the unit of the photon.  "Casimir realised that between two plates, only those virtual photons whose wavelengths fit a whole number of times into the gap should be counted when calculating the vacuum energy," Gibbs said.

It is no error that the equation for the Casimir Effect has the unit for the photon in the numerator.  But as will be seen shortly, the so-called "virtual photons" are mathematically shown to be the strong charge of the electron being acted upon in the same manner as elementary charge is acted upon.  

Let's modify the equation by replacing the h*c with the phtn unit and express the force in units of forc from the Aether Physics Model.

Because we have chosen the Compton wavelength for L and the Compton wavelength squared for A, the numerical terms produce an identity.

The numerical pi divided by 480 is too close to 16pi² to be ignored.  Could it be that the Casimir equation was calculated incorrectly?  Perhaps it should be:

Comparing the numerical term in the original Casimir equation to the assumed 16pi² numerical term gives:

The Casimir value is just 3.3% greater than the 16pi² value. In 1996 Steven Lamoreaux empirically measured the Casimir Effect to within 5% of the Casimir equation.  So the assumed 16pi² value could be correct.

So what's the point of this exercise?  16pi² is the geometrical constant of the Aether in the Aether Physics Model.  According to "The Force of Empty Space" by Focus (a publication of Physical Review), "...the most puzzling aspect of the theory is that the force depends on geometry: If the plates are replaced by hemispherical shells, the force is repulsive. Spherical surfaces somehow "enhance" the number of virtual photons."  The shape of 16pi² resembles a corkscrew and it is equal to the spherical constant squared.

Even more interesting is that phtn/16pi² is equal to the strong charge of the electron times Coulomb's constant.

So that the Casimir equation can be rewritten as:

And so it appears that the Casimir effect is the result of the electron strong charge of the atoms in the metal plates affecting each other through a form of Coulomb's law.  Taking the area and lengths to be the quantum wavelength, the equation can be written and simplified as:

which is exactly the form of Coulombs law except that the force is calculated for the electron strong charge and not the electron elementary charge.  The above equation can be further developed to allow for the rmfd constant to replace Coulomb's constant.  The rmfd constant is equal to 16pi2 times Coulomb's constant:

So now the electron strong charge equation is written as:

To calculate the force between two Casimir plates, measure the strong charge of each plate (they may not be equal), divide by the distance between them squared, and multiply by the rmfd constant.  The strong charge is easy to calculate as it is always proportional to the mass.

In short, the Casimir Effect is experimental proof that the Aether Physics Model is correct in its claim that e_emax² is the strong charge of the electron.