A resolution of the cosmological constant problem

TL;DR

The paper proposes a new quantization method that resolves the cosmological constant problem by eliminating vacuum energy, aligning theoretical calculations with observational data.

Contribution

It introduces an additional quantization step for fermions and bosons that cancels vacuum energy, offering a novel solution to the cosmological constant problem.

Findings

Vacuum energy vanishes after full quantization

Discrepancy between standard theory and observations is addressed

Casimir effect explained without vacuum energy reference

Abstract

The standard calculation of vacuum energy or zero point energy is in strong disagreement with observation. We suggest that this discrepancy is caused by the incomplete quantization of standard field theory. The vacuum energy calculation for fermions shows an unacceptable asymmetry between particles and anti-particles, which has to be corrected by an additional quantization step that reverses the order of the anti-particle operators. Boson fields can be handled similarly, but have to be expanded first in terms of bilinear fermion operators. After the full quantization the vacuum energy vanishes. This does not violate the Casimir effect as this can be explained without reference to the vacuum energy, as Jaffe has demonstrated elsewhere.