Many Worlds and the Vacuum Energy Problem
We suggest that it might be possible to resolve the vacuum energy problem by assuming the reality of a many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The suggested resolution is that the enormous theoretical prediction for the vacuum energy density is actually the value distributed across all the...
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| description | We suggest that it might be possible to resolve the vacuum energy problem by assuming the reality of a many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The suggested resolution is that the enormous theoretical prediction for the vacuum energy density is actually the value distributed across all the parallel universes in a superposition. It is assumed that branching of all the universes into a larger superposition is a physical process which is extremely rare, but which has occurred sufficiently often since the Big Bang that the discrepancy for the experimentally measured value of the energy density can be explained. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1330812d2f5342a099bfd419aef8ec172024-03-26T08:38:50ZengWorld Scientific PublishingReports in Advances of Physical Sciences2424-94242529-752X2023-01-010710.1142/S2424942423500044Many Worlds and the Vacuum Energy ProblemHollis Williams0School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UKWe suggest that it might be possible to resolve the vacuum energy problem by assuming the reality of a many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The suggested resolution is that the enormous theoretical prediction for the vacuum energy density is actually the value distributed across all the parallel universes in a superposition. It is assumed that branching of all the universes into a larger superposition is a physical process which is extremely rare, but which has occurred sufficiently often since the Big Bang that the discrepancy for the experimentally measured value of the energy density can be explained.https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2424942423500044Quantum mechanicsmany worldsvacuum energy |
| spellingShingle | Hollis Williams Many Worlds and the Vacuum Energy Problem Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences Quantum mechanics many worlds vacuum energy |
| title | Many Worlds and the Vacuum Energy Problem |
| title_full | Many Worlds and the Vacuum Energy Problem |
| title_fullStr | Many Worlds and the Vacuum Energy Problem |
| title_full_unstemmed | Many Worlds and the Vacuum Energy Problem |
| title_short | Many Worlds and the Vacuum Energy Problem |
| title_sort | many worlds and the vacuum energy problem |
| topic | Quantum mechanics many worlds vacuum energy |
| url | https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2424942423500044 |
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