Zero-Point Energy Negligible in Cosmological Constant

Note: The sea of virtual particles bubbling in a vacuum occur due to Quantum Electrodynamics and create the Zero Point Energy of a vacuum. These particles (virtual) are what is left after all energy has been removed from the vacuum. In essence they are virtual particles which leave a positive energy in the vacuum which is not zero at the Zero Point Energy. This energy is non recoverable, otherwise the particles would be real (removable) and not virtual. Hence, virtual particles yield a real energy that is yet non-usable energy.

A new way to write the Einstein Field Equations used in Cosmology yields a value that gives the corrected contribution due to  Zero-Point Energy as zero (i.e. negligible, nearly). The problem with the previous attempts had been that a “mere” introduction of an error of 120 orders of magnitude (error of 1 with 120 zeros after it) was deemed the “greatest embarrassment in theoretical physics.” This was known as one of the “Zero Point vacuum problems”; it is a problem which was often referred to in the TV series “Numbers” as Larry’s great quest to explain/solve within theoretical physics.

The new approach averages the values over all space, at a given time in a closed space-time, which shows that the total value of the Vacuum Zero Point Energy, with respect to the cosmological constant, yields no contribution. This will solve one of the greatest last mysteries in Physics. Whether the limiting assumptions to achieve this result bear experimental justification will make or break the result.

This also solves the "Dark Energy" problem, assumed to be due to a negative gravity of some mysterious form.

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