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According to Sean Carroll's The Cosmological constant(https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0004075.pdf) (Eqn.20) cosmological observations imply that the magnitude of the vacuum energy density in natural units is given by
$$|\rho^{(obs)}_\Lambda|\le (10^{-12}\ \rm{GeV})^4.$$
Does this imply that the minimum length scale of the zero-point normal modes of quantum fields in the vacuum are of the order of ##\lambda \sim (\rm{meV})^{-1}\sim \rm{mm}## ?
If this is true then would this millimeter cutoff length be detectable by Casimir effect-type experiments?
$$|\rho^{(obs)}_\Lambda|\le (10^{-12}\ \rm{GeV})^4.$$
Does this imply that the minimum length scale of the zero-point normal modes of quantum fields in the vacuum are of the order of ##\lambda \sim (\rm{meV})^{-1}\sim \rm{mm}## ?
If this is true then would this millimeter cutoff length be detectable by Casimir effect-type experiments?