Revisiting the Casimir Effect
Overview
Gain an insightful take on the Casimir effect: how particle processes shape space, and what that means for physics and computation-minded thinkers.
Details
Title: Revisiting the Casimir Effect
Date: Dec 6 2025 Noon - 14:00 EST
Summary: Most physicists assume the existence of a “quantum foam” as a firmly proven given due to experimental proof of the Casimir effect. In this presentation, Terry will conduct a deep dive into past and current research on the Casimir effect, examining how Casimir interactions can be reframed as remnants of the process by which particles create the highly structured, very-low-energy separation processes that generate the collective particle states we refer to as “space.”
Speaker: Terry Bollinger is a computer scientist with BS, MS, and Professional Degrees from the Missouri University of Science and Technology.