On Feb 25, 6:04*am, K1TTT wrote:
he is stuck in about 1880 with ... a charged aether.

If there is no charged aether, where does the "quantized field in a
vacuum" come from? From Wikipedia: "In quantum field theory, the
Casimir effect and the Casimir-Polder force are physical forces
arising from a quantized field. The typical example is of two
uncharged metallic plates in a vacuum, ..."
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com