The vacuum catastrophe: A classical interpretation

The vacuum catastrophe is name given to the disagreement of over 100 orders of magnitude between measured values of the vacuum energy density and the theoretical zero-point energy predicted by Quantum Field Theory.  This discrepancy has been described as “the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics.” The effects of vacuum energy can be … Read more

Understanding the “reality” of a quantum environment

Can we justify defining the reality of an environment based on our inability to define its reality.  The uncertainty principal of quantum mechanics tells us that we cannot know or observe the precise amount of energy contained in microscopic physical system over very short intervals of time.  Some physicists feel that because they cannot know … Read more

The Casimir effect

We have shown throughout this blog and its companion book “The Reality of the Fourth *Spatial* Dimension” that observations of our environment indicate that the universe is composed of four *spatial* dimensions instead of four-dimensional space-time and a vacuum contains a measurable quantity of continuous non-quantized field of mass/energy. One of these observations is called the … Read more