The author of this monograph proposes a simple correction for the relativistic quantum mechanics estimate of the energy density of the vacuum. The quantum mechanics vacuum has energy; therefore, it has a mass associated with it. If we consider the quantum vacuum a quantum object with mass, then we could extrapolate to the vacuum the results obtained previously for any free quantum object with mass, i.e., the mass of the quantum vacuum must be smaller than the Planck mass. The vacuum is not a quantum vacuum but a classical vacuum when its mass surpasses the Planck mass. There is nothing in the classical vacuum. This explains the extremely low observational value of the dark energy density. Assuming that the energy of the quantum vacuum is the nature of dark energy, and using the observational value of it, we obtain 1000 km as a crude estimate of the maximum radius of the quantum vacuum.
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Components of the Book:
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Simplest Model of a Spatially Confined Quantum Particle
- Chapter 2. The Simplest Model of a Spatially Confined Relativistic Quantum Particle
- Chapter 3. A Relativistic Quantum Particle Could Interact with Itself
- Chapter 4. Breaking the Particle-Antiparticle Symmetry
- Chapter 5. Dark Energy and Cosmological Constant
- References
- Annex 1. Classical Fields and the Existence of Quantum-Classical Frontiers
- Annex 2. Discussions with Grok, the Artificial Intelligence of xAI and X
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers, and other people attending or interested in Relativistic Quantum.
Luis Grave de Peralta
He was born in 1957 in Holguin, Cuba. Grave graduated with a master’s in physics in 1982 at the Oriente University, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. He was a professor in the department of Physics at the Oriente University up to 1990, when he was expelled from his position after resigning from the Cuban Communist Party.