How Does Quantum Vacuum Energy Accelerate?

Abstract

We show that Casimir energy for a configuration of parallel plates gravitates according to the equivalence principle both for the finite and divergent parts. This shows that the latter can be absorbed by a process of renormalization.

Parallel talk at ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008. 4 pages, LaTeX. Changes are cosmetic only, to conform to new ICHEP requirements