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      The Speed of Light in the Quantum Vacuum Ether

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            Why is the speed of light in the vacuum c=299 792 458 m/s? Being a limit velocity it is intuitive to imagine that nature has in itself an intrinsic mechanism that does not allow to exceed this value. Is it then possible to think that the speed of light is greater than c and that vacuum conditions impose this limit? In this work I want to show that there is a law based on the energy density of vacuum and linked to nature constants that highlights how the viscosity of quantum vacuum "forces" photons to travel at limit speed c as a body falling into the Earth's atmosphere due to viscous friction. Furthermore, the deflection of photons that pass close to a mass such as that of the Sun, can be attributed to the refraction produced by the different energy densities of the quantum vacuum in interstellar space and in the space on the surface of a physical object?

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            ScienceOpen Preprints
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            29 September 2023
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            [1 ] Toni Scarmato's Observatory;
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            https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2463-6268
            Article
            10.14293/PR2199.000407.v1
            8c8de563-a9c4-47ec-9538-24b0874643ba

            This work has been published open access under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions, terms of use and publishing policy can be found at www.scienceopen.com .

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            : 29 September 2023
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            All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article (and its supplementary information files).
            Astronomy & Astrophysics,Physics
            Speed of light, relativity, quantum mechanics, nature constants, quantum vacuum, quantum vacuum viscosity

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