"vacuum catastrophe" meaning in English

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  1. (cosmology) The disagreement of over 100 orders of magnitude between measured values of the vacuum energy density and the theoretical zero-point energy suggested by a naïve application of quantum field theory. Wikipedia link: vacuum catastrophe Categories (topical): Cosmology, Energy Related terms: ultraviolet catastrophe, oxygen catastrophe

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