{
  "id": "VAC-03",
  "uri": "https://cosmological-constant.org/claims/#VAC-03",
  "record_type": "Scientific claim",
  "status": "Standard input",
  "dependencies": [
    "VAC-01"
  ],
  "downstream_claims": [],
  "technical_statement": "Scheme-independent energy differences, phase-transition dynamics, interfaces and inhomogeneous stresses are not removed by quotienting a strictly homogeneous constant shift.",
  "public_statement": "The argument does not erase Casimir effects, phase transitions or inhomogeneous stresses.",
  "qualifier": "",
  "source_in_paper": "CC Paper I v1.0, Sec. 3, “Casimir objection”",
  "external_foundations": "Casimir1948; Jaffe2005",
  "limits_open_issues": "Keep visible beside VAC-01/VAC-02.",
  "relations": "",
  "version_history": "v1.2; v1.3 (2026-08-01): source citation updated to the paired-cap revision.",
  "register_version": "v1.6"
}