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Will changing the energy density of the vacuum alter its permitivity or permeability? [closed]

If one uses lasers or a variation of the Casimir effect to change the energy density of a region of free space, will this also change the permeability and the permittivity of this same region? Why or ...
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Quantum Electrodynamics explanation for refraction [duplicate]

I am trying to understand the fundamentals of Quantum Electrodynamics through the simple example of refraction. Let's start with a plane wave coherent state (or a number state) impinging on a boundary ...
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