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We explore the idea that quantum vacuum energy $\rho_{\rm vac} $ is at the origin of Gravity. We formulate a gravitational version of the electromagnetic Casimir effect, and provide an argument for how gravity can arise from $\rho_{\rm vac}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 André LeClair

The Einstein field equation as an equation of state of a thermodynamical system of spacetime is reconsidered in the present Letter. We argue that a consistent interpretation leads us to identify scalar curvature and cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-29 S. C. Tiwari

After a brief outlook of the dynamic quantization method and application of the method to gravity the idea of natural solution of cosmological constant problem in inflating Universe is presented.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. N. Vergeles

Dynamical vacuum energy or quintessence, a slowly varying and spatially inhomogeneous component of the energy density with negative pressure, is currently consistent with the observational data. One potential difficulty with the idea of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Takeshi Chiba

An accelerated universe should naturally have a vacuum energy density determined by its dynamical curvature. The cosmological constant is most likely a temporary description of a dynamical variable that has been drastically evolving from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Joan Sola

We formulate the classical gravitational entropy of a horizon as a Noether charge that does not require the notion of a temperature, and which is applicable to horizons that are not necessarily associated with black holes. This introduces a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-06 Sangmin Choi , Malcolm J. Perry

According to recent observations, the Dark Energy would represent 70% of the content of our Universe. The most popular way to account for this Dark Energy make use of the Cosmological Constant introduced by Einstein. However, some…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Bernard Castaing

The cosmological constant problem is seen as a symptom of the ambiguity of the Riemann curvature in general relativity. The solution of that ambiguity provided by Nash's theorem on gravitational perturbations along extra dimensions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 M. D. Maia

It will be argued here that the cosmological constant problem exists because of the way the vacuum is defined in quantum field theory. It has been known for some time that for QFT to be gauge invariant certain terms--such as part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-20 Gerald E. Marsh

Recently it has been argued that a correct reading of the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum could lead to a solution to the cosmological constant problem. In this work we critically examine such a proposal, finding it questionable due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Gabriel R. Bengochea , Gabriel León , Elias Okon , Daniel Sudarsky

One of the main technical obstacles in constructing a consistent theory of quantum gravity is that the metric itself defines the causal structure required for quantization. This motivates implementing quantum aspects of gravity through an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Johas Morales , Yuri Bonder

We advance the viewpoint that only relevant modes of the vacuum fluctuations, namely, with wavelengths conditioned by the size, homogeneity, geometry and topology of the Universe, do contribute into the cosmological constant. A formula is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 V. G. Gurzadyan , She-Sheng Xue

We consider cosmological implications of the formula for the dark energy density derived by Gurzadyan and Xue which predicts a value fitting the observational one. Cosmological models with varying by time physical constants, namely, speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 G. V. Vereshchagin

The cosmological constant problem is usually considered an inevitable feature of any effective theory capturing well-tested gravitational and matter physics, without regard to the details of short-distance gravitational couplings. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 Raman Sundrum

In the framework of an effective field theory of general relativity a model of scalar and vector bosons interacting with the metric field is considered. It is shown in the framework of a two-loop order calculation that for the cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-30 J. Gegelia , Ulf-G. Meißner

We analyze the classical linear gravitational effect of idealized pion-like dynamical systems, consisting of light quarks connected by attractive gluonic material with a stress-energy $p=-\rho c^2$ in one or more dimensions. In one orbit of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Kris Mackewicz , Craig Hogan

Following a conjecture of Feynman, we explore the possibility that only those energy forms that are associated with (massive or massless) particles couple to the gravitational field, but not others. We propose an experiment to deflect…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Murat Özer

The hypothesis is proposed that under the approximation that the quantum equations of motion reduce to the classical ones, the quantum vacuum also reduces to the classical vacuum--the empty space. The vacuum energy of QED is studied under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shi Qi

We review selected aspects of unimodular gravity and we discuss its viability as a solution of the old cosmological constant problem. In unimodular gravity the cosmological constant is promoted to a global degree of freedom. We highlight…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-05 Pavel Jiroušek

The topos theory is a theory which is used for deciding a number of problems of theory of relativity, gravitation and quantum physics. In the article spherically symmetric solution of the vacuum Einstein equations in the Intuitionistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Guts , A. A. Zvyagintsev