Analogies and The Dynamic Casimir Effect
A similar analysis can be used to explain Hawking radiation that causes the slow "evaporation" of black holes (although this is generally visualised as the escape of one particle from a virtual particle-antiparticle pair, the other particle having been captured by the black hole).
The dynamical Casimir effect is the production of particles and energy from an accelerated boundary, often referred to as a moving mirror or motion-induced radiation.
Constructed within the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the dynamical Casimir effect has been used to better understand acceleration radiation; i.e. the Unruh effect.
Moving mirrors create entropy, particles, energy and gravitational-like effects. In analogy to the event horizon of a black hole, an accelerated mirror amplifies quantum field vacuum fluctuations.
An experimental verification of the dynamical Casimir effect was first achieved in May 2011 at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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