The Casimir effect is widely viewed as a force that originates from what is called vacuum energy. It is often invoked as decisive evidence that the zero point energy of the quantum field is real but there is an alternative way of examining the force which could be considered far more fundamental.

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00:00 Introduction
00:20 Initial Discovery
02:07 Vacuum Energy Explanation
04:13 van der Waals Explanation
04:55 Comparing the two approaches
06:49 van der Waals more detailed explanation