[snip] Not only do the photons and dipoles couple very strongly in the lattice,
they also couple to the quantum vacuum as evidenced by the appearance of vacuum Rabi splitting in the spectroscopic analysis of the associated EMF photon radiation.[/snip] Axil, not sure what you reference as "vacuum Rabi splitting" but suspect you are citing unusual interaction with virtual particles similar to Casimir theory or the recent articles on creating real particles from virtual using an electronic mirror being moved around near the speed of light. My posit is these photonic properties are also derived from the same confinement of longer vacuum wavelengths responsible for Casimir effect and would even suggest the longer wavelengths are stretching space-time in the cavity to make room for themselves and in doing so are exchanging time for energy to power your polaritons. Fran
