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Using a simulated rapid-moving mirror, scientists provided evidence the existence of virtual photons by coaxing them out of a vacuum by means of the dynamical Casimir effect:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/111117_casimir.htm
As a layman, I will reserve judgement until the experts review the results. I would suggest, however, as a VP skeptic, that the procedure seem to me to be pumping a lot of energy into a system that might produce photons by driving quantum fluctuations 'over the top', so to speak, and that the fact the photon pairs matched predictions for VP might only show that the fluctuations match the bundle of attributes of photons at the moment of production, not that there were actual photons there.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/111117_casimir.htm
As a layman, I will reserve judgement until the experts review the results. I would suggest, however, as a VP skeptic, that the procedure seem to me to be pumping a lot of energy into a system that might produce photons by driving quantum fluctuations 'over the top', so to speak, and that the fact the photon pairs matched predictions for VP might only show that the fluctuations match the bundle of attributes of photons at the moment of production, not that there were actual photons there.