TY - JOUR AU - Leuchs, Gerd AU - Hawton, Margaret AU - Sánchez Soto, Luis Lorenzo PY - 2023 DO - 10.3390/physics5010014 SN - 2624-8174 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72352 T2 - Physics AB - The debate about the emptiness of space goes back to the prehistory of science and is epitomized by the Aristotelian 'horror vacui', which can be seen as the precursor of the ether, whose modern version is the dynamical quantum vacuum. In this paper,... LA - eng M2 - 179 PB - MDPI KW - Fine-structure constant KW - Uncertainty princible KW - Quantum KW - Field KW - Energy TI - Physical mechanisms underpinning the vacuum permittivity TY - journal article VL - 5 ER -