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The radiation pressure acting on the permanently conducting plate towards the midpoint - if there wasn't a matching force the other side of it, wouldn't momentum be transferred from the photons comprising the radiation into the momentum of the plate?

OK, thanks - but wouldn't the momentum be taken from the external photons?

Greetings! I would love to hear people's thoughts on the following: My (basic) understanding is that the Casimir Effect acts upon 2 closely spaced parallel conducting plates, because the photon pressure between the plates is less - only wavelengths which are multiples/divisors of the plate...