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modifications. In addition, some of the proposals are arguably incomplete, because they solve the "new" cosmological constant problem by proposing that the actual cosmological constant is exactly zero rather than a tiny number, but fail to solve the "old" cosmological constant problem of why quantum fluctuations seem to fail to produce substantial vacuum energy in the first place. Nevertheless, many physicists argue that, due in part to a lack of better alternatives, proposals to modify gravity should be considered "one of the most promising routes to tackling" the cosmological constant problem.
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break down and may fail to be applicable around the cutoff scale. Because the energy is dependent on how fields interact within the current vacuum state, the vacuum energy contribution would have been different in the early universe; for example, the vacuum energy would have been significantly different prior to
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estimated that the maximum allowable vacuum energy for gravitationally-bound structures to form is problematically large, even given the observational data available in 1987, and concluded the anthropic explanation appears to fail; however, more recent estimates by Weinberg and others, based on other
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cutoff and other factors, the quantum vacuum energy contribution to the effective cosmological constant is calculated to be between 50 and as much as 120 orders of magnitude greater than observed, a state of affairs described by physicists as "the largest discrepancy between theory and experiment in
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across a surface.) Roughly, the vacuum energy is calculated by summing over all known quantum-mechanical fields, taking into account interactions and self-interactions between the ground states, and then removing all interactions below a minimum "cutoff" wavelength to reflect that existing theories
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in the 1960s. In quantum mechanics, the vacuum itself should experience quantum fluctuations. In general relativity, those quantum fluctuations constitute energy that would add to the cosmological constant. However, this calculated vacuum energy density is many orders of magnitude bigger than the
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potential in a Lagrangian formalism in which matter shows a non-vanishing pressure. The model assumes that standard matter provides a pressure which counterbalances the action due to the cosmological constant. Luongo and Muccino have shown that this mechanism permits to take vacuum energy as
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Some proposals involve modifying gravity to diverge from general relativity. These proposals face the hurdle that the results of observations and experiments so far have tended to be extremely consistent with general relativity and the ΛCDM model, and inconsistent with thus-far proposed
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in the 1980s, the problem became much more important: as cosmic inflation is driven by vacuum energy, differences in modeling vacuum energy lead to huge differences in the resulting cosmologies. Were the vacuum energy precisely zero, as was once believed, then the
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considerations, find the bound to be closer to the actual observed level of dark energy. Anthropic arguments gradually gained credibility among many physicists after the discovery of dark energy and the development of the theoretical
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and collaborators have argued that when the energy density of the quantum vacuum is modeled more accurately as a fluctuating quantum field, the cosmological constant problem does not arise. Going in a different direction,
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posit that only regions of small vacuum energy such as the one in which we live are reasonably capable of supporting intelligent life. Such arguments have existed in some form since at least 1981. Around 1987,
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are enough to reduce the theoretical cosmological constant down to the measured cosmological constant due to the Cohen–Kaplan–Nelson (CKN) bound. In 2021, Nikita Blinov and Patrick Draper confirmed through the
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observed cosmological constant. Original estimates of the degree of mismatch were as high as 120 to 122 orders of magnitude; however, modern research suggests that, when
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The calculated vacuum energy is a positive, rather than negative, contribution to the cosmological constant because the existing vacuum has negative quantum-mechanical
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that the CKN bound predicts the measured cosmological constant, all while maintaining the predictions of effective field theory in less extreme conditions.
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After the development of quantum field theory in the 1940s, the first to address contributions of quantum fluctuations to the cosmological constant was
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in 2012, placed the expected theoretical vacuum energy scale around 10 GeV, for a difference of about 55 orders of magnitude.
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vacuum becomes essentially trivial. In the absence of vacuum expectation values, there is no contribution from
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terms in the standard calculation, which lead to an erroneously large value of the cosmological constant.
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The basic problem of a vacuum energy producing a gravitational effect was identified as early as 1916 by
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Why is the vacuum energy density much smaller than a zero-point energy suggested by quantum field theory?
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insight, the origin of the cosmological constant problem is traced back to unphysical
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Some propose an anthropic solution, and argue that we live in one region of a vast
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is taken into account, the degree of mismatch is closer to 60 orders of magnitude.
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all of science" and "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics".
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In 2018, a mechanism for cancelling Λ out has been proposed through the use of a
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predicts, but removing the huge magnitude through a counterbalance term due to
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The vacuum energy density of the Universe based on 2015 measurements by the
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concluded that "If one allows waves of the shortest observed wavelengths
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to the cosmological constant. It is thus predicted to be zero in a flat
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The vacuum energy in quantum field theory can be set to any value by
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Index

Vacuum catastrophe (disambiguation)
Beyond the Standard Model

Large Hadron Collider
CMS
Higgs boson
Standard Model
Hierarchy problem
Dark matter
Dark energy
Quintessence
Phantom energy
Dark radiation
Dark photon
Cosmological constant problem
Strong CP problem
Neutrino oscillation
Brans–Dicke theory
Cosmic censorship hypothesis
Fifth force
F-theory
Theory of everything
Unified field theory
Grand Unified Theory
Technicolor
Kaluza–Klein theory
6D (2,0) superconformal field theory
Noncommutative quantum field theory
Quantum cosmology
Brane cosmology

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