(April 5, 2015 at 8:25 pm)Alex K Wrote: All I can say is that if you embed the standard model into general relativity in the obvious most simpleminded fashion, any vacuum energy from the particles and fields looks like a contribution to Einstein's cosmological constant, which makes vacuum pressure. Now, this construction breaks down near the planck energy, which is why we need more elaborate ideas about quantum gravity. But this doesn't seem to entirely negate the fact that the vacuum energy of the standard model looks like cosmological constant. Moving away from this picture would be a more of a violation of occams razor more the other way around.
It sounds like you're saying that the whole dark matter/dark energy thing is an over-complication, failing to account for known things. It looks like that to me too although I'm just a layman. I'm just having a hard time imagining that the major players in the physics community wouldn't see this too if that is the case.
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