English Explanatory Dictionary

vacuum catastrophe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The disagreement of over 100 orders of magnitude between measured values of the vacuum energy density and the theoretical zero-point energy suggested by a naïve application of quantum field theory.

Word forms

vacuum catastrophe

Related words

ultraviolet catastrophe oxygen catastrophe
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