EAN: 9783642550898

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN PHYSICS THE WEIGHT OF THE V...

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to
dark energy  a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy
actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context
and show how it grew out of disparate roots in quantum mechanics (zero-point energy) and
relativity theory (the cosmological constant  Einstein's greatest blunder). These two
influences have remained strangely aloof and still co-exist in an uneasy alliance that is at
the heart of the greatest crisis in theoretical physics  the cosmological-constant problem.

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