Cosmological Constant Problem

Terms: Cosmological Constant Problem (3730), cosmological constant (177000), vacuum catastrophe (56),

Terms: vacuum energy (71700), eotvos (65600), vacuum energies (414), casimir energy (3000), zero point energy (91500), vacuum fluctuations (21100), quantum vacuum (32800), dirac sea (6100), vacuum energy density (7230),

Duke - Electromagnetic Energy Density

Terms: zitterbewegung (1430), brownian motion (314000), synchrotron radiation (396000), compton effect (53500), radiation pressure (82400), special relativity (208000), gravitational red shift (1760), energy density (490000),

Terms: photon noise (8950), field fluctuations (22400), radiation pressure fluctuations (34), fluctuation-dissipation (11100),

UCLA - Vacuum Energy Density, or How Can Nothing Weigh Something?

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(1)  Casimir force

Terms: adiabatic vacua (55), adiabatic vacuum (211), vacuum polarization (14000), particle creation (9150), pair creation (12200),

Terms: energy momentum tensor (35600), electromagnetic energy (276000), poynting vector (23600), laser energy (123000), electromagnetic energy density (367),

[hep-th/0211080] On the Vacuum energy of a Color Magnetic Vortex

[hep-ph/9807510] Electroweak phase transition in a strong magnetic field

[gr-qc/0312115] Cosmological Constant Problem - J. W. Moffat

[gr-qc/0208027] The history of the cosmological constant problem

[quant-ph/0105053] Quantum vacuum fluctuations

[quant-ph/0012144] Quantum Fluctuations of Radiation Pressure

Cosmological Constant Problem Links

Stephen Wolfram - Historical Notes: Vacuum fluctuations

Terms: Planck mass (12400), Planck length (32600),

Wikipedia -  Planck particle + Planck Mass + Compton Length:

mP = \sqrt{\frac{\hbar{}c}{G}} ˜ 2.176 × 10-8 kg

r_s = \frac{2Gm}{c^2}

A particle generally behaves quantum mechanically when observed at distances shorter than its Compton wavelength. In particular, in the uncertainty relation for position and momentum, \Delta x\,\Delta p\ge \hbar/2, when the position uncertainty ?x is less than the Compton wavelength, the momentum uncertainty ?p is greater than mXc. Since momentum carries energy, the uncertainty in energy is greater than mXc2, which is enough energy to create another particle of type X. The Compton wavelength is therefore generally viewed as the cutoff below which quantum field theory, which can describe particle creation and annihilation, becomes important.