TITLE:
Some Consequences of Zero Point Energy
AUTHORS:
Bo Lehnert
KEYWORDS:
Zero Point Energy, Quantum Electrodynamics, Standard Model and Beyond, Expanding Universe, Dark Energy, Dark Matter
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications,
Vol.6 No.10,
September
25,
2014
ABSTRACT: Both
theory and experiments indicate that the vacuum is not a state of empty space,
but is populated by electromagnetic fluctuations at a lowest nonzero level, the
Zero Point Energy (ZPE). This debouches into considerable changes of
fundamental physics, as shown by a revised quantum electrodynamic theory (RQED)
applied to elementary particles, and by a revised ZPE frequency spectrum
applied to the expanding universe. The Standard Model based on a vacuum state
of empty space is thus replaced by RQED, thereby resulting in massive
elementary particles from the beginning, independently of the theory by Higgs. Also
the basic properties of the Higgs-like particle detected at CERN can be
reproduced by RQED. It further leads to new fundamental results beyond the
theories by Dirac and Higgs, such as to a deduced value of the elementary net
charge, magnetic confinement of charged particle configurations, intrinsic
local particle charges, photon spin with a very small but nonzero photon rest
mass, and needle-like particle-wave properties which contribute to the
understanding of the photoelectric effect and two-slit experiments. The real
macroscopic pressure due to the revised ZPE frequency distribution further
influences the dynamics of the expanding universe, by the ZPE photon pressure
gradient acting as dark energy, and the ZPE photon energy density acting as
dark matter. This results in a model being consistent with the observed scale,
the rate of expansion, and the stability of a flat expanding observable
universe.