The Nature of Vacuum Energy

Abstract

Yvan-Claude Raverdy

The aim here is to show that the consideration of a quantum fluid, therefore granular, to describe space empty of matter and particles, is likely to resolve the question of its energy density in agreement with the data of standard cosmology. The Casimir effect should then make it possible to access its value which can be compared to the local gravitational energy. This also explains why quantum field theory is ineffective in accounting for this quantity.

We also show that we can, through this basic hypothesis, give a concrete meaning to “dark energy” and “dark matter”.

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