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The boundary conditions. What we learn from the Casimir effect is that these plates, if we move them relativistically, light gets trapped, bounces off the mirrors, bounces off of them, gets trapped, and then boom, pops into existence. It's a real effect. You came for physics, and here it is. First paper of the night. Probably the only paper, to be honest, but it's an important one. Observation of the dynamic Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit. This is not theoretical. This is very important. This is experimentally proven. One of the most surprising predictions of modern quantum theory. All of this comes from quantum field theory. Is it the vacuum of space is not empty? That's the most That's the very first sentence in this paper. This is 2011, by the way. In fact, quantum theory predicts that it teems with virtual particles flit- flitting in and out of existence. This is the zero-point energy. This is the zero-point energy. Although initially a curiosity, it was quickly realized that these vacuum fluctuations had measurable consequences. For instance, producing the Lamb shift of the electron. This type of renormalization due to vacuum fluctuations is now central to our understanding of nature. However, these effects provide indirect evidence for the existence of vacuum fluctuations. From early on, it was discussed whether or not it may be possible to more directly observe these virtual particles. 40 years ago, it was suggested a mirror undergoing relativistic could convert virtual photons into directly observable photons. This phenomenon, later termed the dynamic Casimir effect, had not been previously demonstrated. This is the first time this effect was experimentally demonstrated. Here we observe the dynamic Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit consisting of a coplanar transmission line within a tunable electric length. The rate of change of the electrical length can be made very fast. So, they've made an equivalent analog of the mirrors moving back and forth. In addition to the observation or observing creation of real photons, they also detect a two-mode squeezing in the emitted radiation, which is a signature of the quantum character of the generation process. Go ahead, Sabine. Go ahead and debunk the dynamic Casimir effect. So, the key element is taking the same Casimir effect and now applying a time-varying condition. You may say, Ashton, what the hell does that mean? Good question. Very good question. >> [snorts] >> Well, the answer is this or this, I suppose. You have your your mirror is moving. Or this. Spinning. It means that from your perspective, let's say you're on an airplane and there's some orbs spinning around you and they're spinning around your plane vertically. You're watching the orbs spin around and from your perspective, it looks like they're spinning around in a circle around you. That's a time-varying condition. That orb moves from that place to that place to that place, and it's all perfectly geometric around you. This is the secret to probably nuclear weapons as well. I don't know that for a fact, so the government can't come after me. I'm only speculating. But, uh time-varying boundary condition, and it has been proven that when they push this to relativistic speeds, very high rates of speed, shh. that light comes out of nowhere. This is also the most logical explanation for sonoluminescence. I went hard at people at this. Why? >> [music] >> Because where is the light coming from in this effect right here? I mean, where is the light actually coming from? This is just sound waves in water. Sound waves in water causing a cavitation bubble, and everybody agrees that it's the cavitation bubble which causes the light to come out. But, what does that mean? You just blew a bubble in there with some sound waves, and then it collapsed so quickly it collapsed so quickly that it produced light? I mean, just from a classic physics perspective, that doesn't make any sense to me. It feels like the cavitation shouldn't be able to collapse so quickly that light appears out of nowhere under a classic physics perspective. And it turns out, I think that's true. Now, where did I go to find this most recent information? >> Practical conversion of zero point energy. Thomas Volone, PhD by the way, he did get his PhD, knows his [ __ ] and he was a patent examiner, too. And right here, on page 21, it says ZPE in sonoluminescence. So, let's listen to the actual arguments, the facts, the details, the scientific papers. >> [clears throat] >> Those science people be [ __ ] sometimes. It's factual. Scientists at UCLA have recently measured the length of time that sonoluminescence flashes persist. How long that flash persists. It's very quick. Barber discovered that they only exist for 50 picoseconds or shorter, which is too brief for the light to be produced by subatomic process. So, it can't be subatomic nuclear process at place there. Atomic processes, in comparison, emit light for at least several tenths of a second. So, the light should have been flash should have persisted for longer. To And this is a direct quote. To the best of our resolution, which has only established upper bounds, the light flashes less than 50 picoseconds in duration and occurs within 0.5 nanoseconds of the minimum bubble radius. The sonoluminescence flash width is thus 100 times shorter than the shortest visible lifetime of an excited state of a hydrogen atom. Wow. Wow, chat. The other thing I want to point out here is >> [clears throat] >> Julian Schwinger as in the guy that won the Nobel Prize for quantum electrodynamics, for developing quantum electrodynamics with Richard Feynman in 1965, that Julian Schwinger. Schwinger proposed a physical mechanism for sonoluminescence in terms of photon production due to changes in the property of the vacuum arising from a collapsing dielectric bubble. Well, well, well, chat. Well, well, well. >> [clears throat] >> Julian Schwinger believed that it was a phenomenon related to the vacuum as well as cold fusion. Turns out all of our goats were on our side and still on our side spiritually.