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Lately I've become rather obsessed with physics and in particular the casimir effect. I understand how it works, though I recently began wondering how this effect would act within a circular or a cylinder or something as such. Would it make the circle cave in, thus the sides touching? Would...

Exactly like Bill said, the electron could never truly be placed within the centre of the sphere at rest. On the behavior that the electron would be inhibiting, this is indeed a tricky question. Though if you were to put an electron inside of a total vacuum the electron would interact with the...