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According to Quantum Mechanics is it possible that the famous "dark energy" and "zero-point energy" are the same thing that drives the accelerated expansion of the universe or maybe related to each other?

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Andrea Scaglioni
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    Possibly relevant: Jaffe, The Casimir Effect and the Quantum Vacuum, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0503158 ; Martin, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Cosmological Constant Problem (But Were Afraid To Ask), http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3365 –  Sep 06 '13 at 16:04
  • related: http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/75529/ –  Sep 06 '13 at 16:05

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Nobody knows. There are multiple explanations for dark energy that haven't been eliminated. One of the explanations that hasn't been eliminated is zero point energy:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3365.

Another possible explanation is that the alleged expansion is actually a result of neglecting the effects of inhomogeneities on averaging:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3787.

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