Quantum vacuum and virtual gravitational dipoles: The solution to the dark energy problem?

DOI10.1007/S10509-012-0992-YMaRDI QIDQ1929265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic

Publication date 7 January 2013

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4594

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constant problemdark energygravitational dipolequantum vacuum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: The cosmological constant problem is the principal obstacle in the attempt to interpret dark energy as the quantum vacuum energy. We suggest that the obstacle can be removed, i.e. that the cosmological constant problem can be resolved by assuming that the virtual particles and antiparticles in the quantum vacuum have the gravitational charge of the opposite sign. The corresponding estimates of the cosmological constant, dark energy density and the equation of state for dark energy are in the intriguing agreement with the observed values in the present day Universe. However, our approach and the Standard Cosmology lead to very different predictions for the future of the Universe; the exponential growth of the scale factor, predicted by the Standard Cosmology, is suppressed in our model.

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