Great question hinting theory of everything situation that Prof.Tong talked about.
There are two aspects that I had about the existence of aether versus the vacuum. Eventually our QFM/EM may be able to answer it. Referrring to my article:
Immeasurable tensor measurable scalar matrix physics natural modeling one may interpret that not everything is scalar or ever measurable. One aspect of the vacuum may be that it acts as a wave guide to convert noise (aether?) to a signal particle wave. Another aspect of the vacuum may be tensor gridnetwork that are not measurable. Hence Michelson Morley wasn't able to detect aether with the classical sense.
Hope that our ongoing scientific discussions that are going on with other entrenched physicists will resolve it.
Thank you for sharing this research.
Sincerely,
Rajan Iyer ENGINEERINGINC COLLABORATIVE OPERATIONAL GLOBAL TEI PLATFORM
Not even close. First of all, there's no discrepancy-that statement is wrong (the contribution of known matter only makes sense in a state, that doesn't exist, for starters); and the identification of dark energy with dark matter is, also, wrong, since dark matter can't describe dark energy-the equations of state can't be identified, since the pressure has opposite sign in the two cases.
Incidentally, in curved spacetime, the vacuum state isn't unique and how to compute the change in spacetime geometry, due to the quantum properties of matter, isn't known. Unless any proposal addresses this issue, it isn't addressing the problem at all.
There is no any Vacuum Catastrophe if we use Second Quantization approach - see my article https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04646 "Vacuum and spacetime signature in the theory of superalgebraic spinors". Eigenvalues for energy and momentum are zero for vacuum state.
I have to break my silence on this, I must answer.
I have proven many times so far that assuming a theoretically isolated quantum electric dipole pair (+)--x--(-)(+)--x--(-) , separated by d>>x in the far field, with no other electric charges in between (in practice not possible) will interact with a force dissipating with the inverse cube law with distance as exactly in the case of magnetic dipoles.
Moreover, I have experimentally proven that magnetic N-S dipoles interaction in the near field d ≥ x , contrary to the general misconception, the magnetic dipolar force dissipates with the inverse square law with distance as in electric dipoles and not with the inverse cube as thought. This is also a strong indication that electrons are actually quantum elementary magnetic dipoles, that they are not electric monopoles and they so called electric charge, is actually their whirling magnetic dipole flux due to their axial angular spin forming a uniform spinning magnetosphere we call today as electric charge.
This is vital to understand.
Now continuing my stream of thought experiment. The fact that EM waves thus photons, which are really dynamic electric dipole interactions of matter (air is also matter) are propagating as many times confirmed by experiments and measurements, with the inverse square law with distance can inescapable mean only one thing.
Thus, that these must be a stream of near field quantum electric dipole interactions which is very logical conclusion considering that matter is full of electrons all within the near field with each other.
Therefore photons, light and EM waves can only be possible as a cascade mechanism phenomenon of electrons charging (absorption of photon by electron) and electrons discharging (emission of photon by electron) essentially retransmitting and passing by along matter their magnetic charge pulse emissions thus light and EM. The above mechanism explains also the discrete quantized nature of light and EM radiation, thus photons.
If anyone is in a hurry to discredit the above mentioned by giving the vacuum space as an example, I advise you to have a look on this thread here:
And No. EM is a matter phenomenon and therefore needs a medium to propagate unless you believe electrons as not being matter.
Emmanouil
p.s. EM waves propagation in vacuum space is possible due to the zero point energy fluctuations field everywhere present in space (aether?), with vacuum space full with virtual particles, acting as the medium for EM waves propagation in "empty" space.