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Does Nothingness Exist?

The Joy of Why

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The Problem With the Vacuum Energy Density

In quantum field theory, the vacuum energy is infinite. But in a true theory where there's some maximum energy that we can prove that our little pendula can sort of like move out, the answer is not actually infinite. The actual measure value of the vacuum energy density is way smaller than all the other relevant energy scales that we know of 16 nature. And our calculation of frameworks are not giving us an answer.

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