The case for a Casimir cosmology

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2019.0229MaRDI QIDQ4994642zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ulf Leonhardt

Publication date 20 June 2021

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03943

zbMATH Keywords

astrophysicsatomic and molecular physicsCasimir forcescosmologydark energydielectricsquantum physicsvacuum fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The cosmological constant, also known as dark energy, was believed to be caused by vacuum fluctuations, but naive calculations give results in stark disagreement with fact. In the Casimir effect, vacuum fluctuations cause forces in dielectric media, which is very well described by Lifshitz theory. Recently, using the analogy between geometries and media, a cosmological constant of the correct order of magnitude was calculated with Lifshitz theory [U. Leonhardt, Ann. Phys. (New York) 411, 167973 (2019)]. This paper discusses the empirical evidence and the ideas behind the Lifshitz theory of the cosmological constant without requiring prior knowledge of cosmology and quantum field theory.

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