All theories on the Casimir effect evolve around rather advanced concepts of physics. What tells us that the effect is not simply caused by gravity? Is this idea just nonsense in non-newtonian physics? Or did someone prove that gravity can’t be the cause?
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Because they move toward each other in a way that can’t be accounted for gravity alone. We can calculate exactly the gravitational force between two objects and thus determine to what degree they will pull toward each other. If they deviate from this, it must be due to something other than gravity.
The Casimir Effect is very small but gravity is so incredibly weak it is still negligible here. We have no way to even measure gravity at the scale the Casimir Effect becomes important.
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