does the unruh effect have any bearing on the question of a detectable flux? If the flux is composed of virtual particles, they wouldn't live long enough to offer a "velocity signal" to a static detector. But if the detector was of a relativistic velocity, doesn't the unruh effect come into play at that point as it intersects the quantum foam of space?

Edited September 10, 20178 yr by hoola

7 hours ago, hoola said:

does the unruh effect have any bearing on the question of a detectable flux? 

1. This is off topic. If you want to discuss Unruh radiation, start a thread on it.

2. No. It requires an accelerating frame of reference.

3. No. An interferometer does not measure some random "flux"; it compares the phases of a singe light source