Is Dark Energy a Cosmic Casimir Effect?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-03-28 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Unknown short-distance effects cancel the quartic divergence of the zero-point energies. If this renormalization took effect in the early universe after the last phase transition and applied only to modes whose wavelengths (over 2 pi) were shorter than the Hubble length 1/H at that time, then the zero-point energies of the modes of longer wavelengths can approximately account for the present value of the dark-energy density. The model makes two predictions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1102.5572,
title = {Is Dark Energy a Cosmic Casimir Effect?},
author = {Kevin Cahill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.5572},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Two pages, one figure