➲Why Does Conventional Physics Predict a Cosmological Constant That is Vastly Too Large?
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If you assume the cosmological constant is a manifestation of vacuum state energy (and that is reasonable because you can prove that if vacuum energy contributes to gravity then it will act like a cosmological constant), the most straightforward way to naively estimate it is to just add up the vacuum state energy of all the quantum fields. When you do that, you get a value that is 120 orders of magnitude larger than the measured value. Clearly the naive route isn’t the right route, so something more subtle, and currently not understood, must be going on.
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The bottom line is that conventional physics is quantum field theory, and it contains some significant issues. Take a look at the Wikipedia page on vacuum catastrophe (disambiguation). It says this:
Vacuum catastrophe is the cosmological constant problem in cosmology.
Vacuum catastrophe may also refer to:
The divergence in the calculation of vacuum energy in quantum field theory; See Renormalization.
The two are related. See the Wikipedia history of quantum field theory article. It says in the 1930s, quantum field theory, which was the same as quantum electrodynamics at the time, was “plagued by s
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