query: In simple terms, is the permittivity of free space the polarizability of a vacuum?
positive_passages.docid: 155651
positive_passages.text: Why does the vacuum even have permeability and permittivity?
negative_passages.docid: 63513
negative_passages.text: What is the minimum wavelength of electromagnetic radiation?
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negative_passages.text: What is the status of massless photons traveling through a medium?
negative_passages.docid: 74101
negative_passages.text: How is a vacuum able to propagate light?
negative_passages.docid: 29728
negative_passages.text: Does the vacuum in QFT have nonzero energy or not?
negative_passages.docid: 114620
negative_passages.text: Maxwell in multiple dimensions: What happens to curl?
negative_passages.docid: 85774
negative_passages.text: Looking for the actual reason of refraction explained precisely without analogies
negative_passages.docid: 58728
negative_passages.text: Why does the speed of light in vacuum have no uncertainty?
negative_passages.docid: 11602
negative_passages.text: Validity of naively computing the de Broglie wavelength of a macroscopic object
negative_passages.docid: 143962
negative_passages.text: What's the nuance of susceptibility and permittivity?
negative_passages.docid: 11053
negative_passages.text: Planck's Law in terms of wavelength
negative_passages.docid: 2912
negative_passages.text: What does it take to understand Maxwell's equations?
negative_passages.docid: 122541
negative_passages.text: How would Gauss' law hold in time varying electric fields?
negative_passages.docid: 41466
negative_passages.text: Can the photoelectric effect be explained without photons?
negative_passages.docid: 98389
negative_passages.text: Electromagnetic waves in vacuum
negative_passages.docid: 100807
negative_passages.text: Are the Maxwell equations a correct description of the wave character of photons?
negative_passages.docid: 130915
negative_passages.text: Are free electrons in a metal really free