TITLE:
Theoretical and Experimental Feasibility of a Sonoluminescence-Modulated Multilayer Casimir Cavity: A Falsifiable Investigation of Dynamical Vacuum Radiation Coupling
AUTHORS:
Ciprian Pater
KEYWORDS:
Dynamical Casimir Effect, Sonoluminescence, Casimir Cavity, Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations, Bogoliubov Transformation, Two-Mode Squeezing, Photon-Pair Correlations, Cavity QED, Multilayer Casimir Geometry, Parametric Amplification, Falsifiable Physics, Energy Balance
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.18 No.9,
September
30,
2026
ABSTRACT: We investigate whether a sonoluminescence-driven, dynamically modulated multilayer Casimir cavity can generate measurable electromagnetic radiation or mechanical work beyond conventional sonoluminescence (SL) channels, and we formulate the energy-conservation and metrological criteria required to distinguish a dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) contribution from ordinary acoustic, thermal, plasma, chemical, and electromagnetic backgrounds. The present work does not claim net extraction of zero-point energy, does not claim a violation of thermodynamics, and does not project hundreds of megawatts of output. Instead, we (i) develop a coupled acoustic/bubble-dynamics/cavity-QED model, (ii) derive the Bogoliubov structure that a laboratory DCE signature must satisfy, (iii) write an explicit global energy balance, (iv) define a falsifiable experimental control matrix separating conventional SL, plasma, thermal, chemical, and candidate DCE channels, and (v) specify DCE-specific signatures (correlated photon pairs, two-mode squeezing, sideband structure ωDCE ≈ ωi + ωj) that are inaccessible to any of the classical channels. The device is reframed as a falsifiable experimental program rather than a demonstrated energy-generation mechanism.