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Spinnor
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Doing some searching about the zero point energy of the vacuum I came up with an excerpt from Google books,
Page 62 of
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZP...um zero point energy density estimate&f=false
I think the paragraph stated that the zero point energy contribution from boson fields was positive while the contribution from the fermionic fields tended to cancel the bosonic contribution. Is that correct, and if so is there a hand wavey way of explaining that? I naively thought that the zero point fluctuations of all the different fields was positive.
Thanks for any help!
Page 62 of
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZP...um zero point energy density estimate&f=false
I think the paragraph stated that the zero point energy contribution from boson fields was positive while the contribution from the fermionic fields tended to cancel the bosonic contribution. Is that correct, and if so is there a hand wavey way of explaining that? I naively thought that the zero point fluctuations of all the different fields was positive.
Thanks for any help!