{"id":8808,"date":"2017-11-26T19:27:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T02:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2017-12-02T19:30:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T02:30:55","slug":"8808-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/26\/8808-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/25\/the_worst_theoretical_prediction_in_the_history_of_physics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Real Clear Science<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>The Worst Theoretical Prediction in the History of Physics<\/h1>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/authors\/ross_pomeroy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ross Pomeroy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x2baCg8SHGM\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics has a dark energy problem.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to scientifically mysterious concepts that begin with the word &#8220;dark,&#8221; dark matter attracts most of the public attention. Dark energy, however, constitutes 68.3% of the mass of the universe compared to dark matter&#8217;s paltry 26.8% (and normal matter&#8217;s minuscule 4.9%). It is truly the more consequential of the two &#8220;dark&#8221; concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet we&#8217;ll never likely be able to &#8220;catch&#8221; a particle of dark energy as scientists are striving to do with dark matter. That&#8217;s because dark energy is \u2013 most likely \u2013 just the energy inherent to space, itself, perhaps arising from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/what_does_space_look_like_under_a_microscope.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quantum foam<\/a>, composed of virtual particles that flit in and out of existence. As Einstein <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_in_special_relativity#Terminology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reminds us<\/a>, the energy delivered by these virtual particles briefly protruding into space has mass.<\/p>\n<p>When astronomers attempt to measure dark energy&#8217;s density in space, they come up with roughly <a href=\"http:\/\/math.ucr.edu\/home\/baez\/vacuum.html\">10^\u22129 joules per cubic meter<\/a>, a microscopic but influential amount. However, this observed value, known as the cosmological constant, isn&#8217;t remotely close to that which is predicted by the time-tested <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_field_theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quantum field theory<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5dryXCWR7EIC&amp;pg=PA187#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As detailed in the textbook\u00a0<em>General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/25\/the_worst_theoretical_prediction_in_the_history_of_physics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at RCS<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Real Clear Science The Worst Theoretical Prediction in the History of Physics By Ross Pomeroy Quantum mechanics has a dark energy problem. When it comes to scientifically mysterious concepts that begin with the word &#8220;dark,&#8221; dark matter attracts most of the public attention. Dark energy, however, constitutes 68.3% of the mass of the universe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}