Size Matters: Lorentz Boosted Casimir Effect

Many evidences appear in the past decades and show that the negativity of Casimir energy is responsible for exotic mechanical and gravitational effects. We study in this work the Lorentz boost of a Casimir cavity, on which little attention is paid to its momentum in historical works. We find that the vacuum energy and momentum carried by the cavity transform differently from those of point particles due to the cavity’s extension feature. However, the mass-shell condition of the two are identical as long as the cavity is finite along the moving direction only.