Gravitational Casimir effect

TL;DR

This paper derives the gravitonic Casimir effect considering realistic boundary conditions, quantifies its magnitude in ordinary matter, and explores potential enhancement in superconductors to test graviton theories.

Contribution

It introduces a method to calculate the gravitonic Casimir effect with real-world boundaries and proposes an experimental test for graviton existence via superconductors.

Findings

Gravitonic Casimir effect is negligible in ordinary matter.

Superconductors may significantly enhance the gravitonic Casimir effect.

Proposes a test for the Heisenberg-Couloumb effect and graviton existence.

Abstract

We derive the gravitonic Casimir effect with non-idealised boundary conditions. This allows the quantification of the gravitonic contribution to the Casimir effect from real bodies. We quantify the meagreness of the gravitonic Casimir effect in ordinary matter. We also quantify the enhanced effect produced by the speculated Heisenberg-Couloumb (H-C) effect in superconductors, thereby providing a test for the validity of the H-C theory, and consequently the existence of gravitons.