A Final Cure to the Tribulations of the Vacuum in Quantum Theory

Abstract

Quantum Field Theory seems to be of late anything but unraveling, apparently shifting from crisis to crisis. Undeniably, there seems to be running, for many different reasons, a rampant discomfort with the Standard Model, an extension of QFT aiming at complementing it. Prior to the latest supersymmetry upset, what has been known as the “vacuum castastrophe” or the “cosmological constant problem” resoundingly shook the very foundations of the Theory. Effectively the enormous numeric disparity between its predicted value of the vacuum energy density, an element of utmost significance in the Theory, and the measured value of this quantity from a Relativistic approach has prompted some to qualify this mishap as the biggest predictive failure of any Theory. Like a wounded beast, Quantum Field Theory seems to be left searching for its soul now for almost two decades. Under the umbrella of Quanto-Geometric Theory, we offer here a different approach to the question of the vacuum energy density that demonstrably calculates a sensible and consistent value of this quantity from first axiomatic principles, casting a figure that is in very close match with the cosmological quantity. Therefore in so doing, Quanto-Geometric Theory effectively and definitively cures the long-standing grueling vacuum problem by bridging the gap between the quantum vacuum and the relativistic vacuum.