The Einstein Telescope is Europe's next generation gravitational-wave detector. To develop
all necessary technology, four research facilities have emerged across Europe: The Amaldi …

We review the main scientific pictures of the universe developed from ancient times to Albert
Einstein and underline that all of them treated the universe as a stationary system with …

Doubt continues to linger over the reality of quantum vacuum energy. There is some
question whether fluctuating fields gravitate at all, or do so anomalously. Here we show that …

In this paper I review various developments in the past year concerning quantum vacuum
energy, the Casimir effect. In particular, there has been continuing controversy surrounding …

In this paper, we have for the first time considered the consequences of finite temperature
contributions to a traversable wormhole. This was done by using finite temperature …

We investigate the influence of a time-varying spacetime background on the vacuum
polarization of a massless quantum field confined to a Casimir cavity. The background is …

The force exerted by the gravitational field on a Casimir cavity in terms of Archimedes force
of vacuum is discussed, the force that can be tested against observation is identified, and it …

We investigate the response of Casimir energies to fluctuations in a scalar field in the
background of a weak gravitational field in κ-deformed space-time. We model the Casimir …

We describe the behavior of a beam balance used for the measurement of small forces, in
macroscopic samples, in tens of mHz frequency band. The balance, which works at room …

We report the tilt sensitivity reached by the ARCHIMEDES tiltmeter in the 2–20 Hz frequency
region, where seismic noise is expected to give an important limitation to the sensitivity in …