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gildomar
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I know that the Casimir effect is a purely quantum mechanical phenomenon arising from the suppression of photons in the space between the plates and thus pushed together from the photons outside the plates. But just looking at a single cycle of the plates of the plates coming together, where exactly does the energy come to do so in a thermodynamic sense? As in does the energy effectively come from the space itself outside the plates? Or am I not looking at the situation correctly?
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