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Electromagnetic dark energy
Christian Beck, Michael C. Mackey
We introduce a new model for dark energy in the universe in which a small cosmological constant is generated by ordinary electromagnetic vacuum energy. The corresponding virtual ph…
Measurability of vacuum fluctuations and dark energy
Christian Beck, Michael C. Mackey
Vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field induce current fluctuations in resistively shunted Josephson junctions that are measurable in terms of a physical power spectrum. I…
Rebuttal to: Has dark energy really been discovered in the Lab?
Christian Beck, Michael C. Mackey
We argue that a recent discussion of Jetzer and Straumann [Phys. Lett. B 606, 77 (2005)] relating the measured noise spectrum in Josephson junctions to van der Waals forces is inco…
Could dark energy be measured in the lab?
Christian Beck, Michael C. Mackey
The experimentally measured spectral density of current noise in Josephson junctions provides direct evidence for the existence of zero-point fluctuations. Assuming that the total…