Ah, an even more elegant argument against ZPE than the off-mass shell argument. Thanks for that tip, Brent. :-)
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:38 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 6/25/2013 1:27 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > One wonders why this simple observed fact does not percolate down to the > masses that continue to spout nonsense that is contrary to the fact. The > zero point energy is, at best, electromagnetic in nature and since it is > off-mass-shell" cannot contribute to the momentum-energy source of > curvature. This also implies that there is no such thing as Planck scale > 'foaminess'! > > > The zero point energy of a field is negative for bosons (like photons) and > positive for fermions. The theory predicts *+*hbar*w/2 for each degree > of freedom (e.g. 2 for a photon). This is what produces what Weinberg > called the "worst prediction in theoretical physics". But if you use the > holographic principle and count only the degrees of freedom proportional to > the surface area (instead of volume) of the hubble sphere you get an energy > density close to the observed dark energy value. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/YG6eX_qL0bE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
