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Could we hypothetically use it to create a region of space with the magnitude of the stress component of stress energy tensor greater than magnitude of mass denisty component?
Not speaking to the feasibility of wormholes, per se, but doesn't the Casimir effect count as experimental proof of the possibility for negative energy densities? Or am I missing something?mfb said:No.
To make it worse, all solutions (I know of) need negative energy densities, and we have no idea if these can exist at all.
Christofer Br said:Could we hypothetically use it to create a region of space with the magnitude of the stress component of stress energy tensor greater than magnitude of mass denisty component?
It is just an attractive force between two things of (high) positive energy density.ComplexVar89 said:Not speaking to the feasibility of wormholes, per se, but doesn't the Casimir effect count as experimental proof of the possibility for negative energy densities? Or am I missing something?
pervect said:To possibly oversimplify, the plates of known conductors
have a positive energy density, the space between two conductive plates can have a negative enregy density due to some strange quantum weirdness, the supression of certain frequencies in the quantum vacuum.
pervect said:The casimir force violates the weak energy condition, so it's a promising candidate, but I'm not sure if it violates the average weak energy condition, which is what you really need to stabilize a wormhole according to the Morris-Thorne-Yurstserver paper.
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