Capt_Maloche wrote:
Be careful, (I see the budding free energy researchers coming ) this notion of vacuum energy is extremely complex to grasp, of the same order as the notion of infinity
For the moment, in the state of our poor knowledge of the world, on a quantum scale the calculations predict 10 exp 112 Joules per m3 of space !!! and 115 times less with the still unrestricted theory of relativity (E = mC²)
energy is matter and vice versa
and when 2 valid theories are also divergent on such a subject, there is reason to question everything
Stunning! you wanted science fiction LieTseu?
Not 115 times less, 10 ^ 115 times less. Which is actually quite boring, but hey, our knowledge of the world at the quantum scale is excellent, at the GR scale too. And we know very well that the QM is completely false on the scale of the GR. There is nothing to panic about, it just lacks a theory of which the GR and the QM are approximations according to the scales.
Because these theories are excellent, and perfectly predict the behavior of matter. A unifying theory must therefore admit them as approximations.
Unfortunately if this energy is perhaps able to stretch the universe, that does not mean that it is usable on an earth which itself is not expanding.