Vacuum Energy, Black Holes and the Cosmological Constant
General Physics
2014-02-10 v1
Abstract
We consider a possibility that the formally infinite vacuum energy of the quantized matter fields could be stored into Planck-size quantum black holes acting as the fundamental constituents of space and time. Using the recently proposed thermodynamical equation of state obeyed by the cosmological constant we indicate, how this idea might explain the smallness of the cosmological constant, if the vacuum energy is the source of the cosmological constant.
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@article{arxiv.1402.1488,
title = {Vacuum Energy, Black Holes and the Cosmological Constant},
author = {Jarmo Mäkelä},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1488},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
An essay submitted to the Gravity Research Foundation 2014 Awards for Essays on Gravitation