A Three-Dimensional Non-Local Quantum Vacuum as the Origin of Photons
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https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe65.2.106Keywords:
black body radiation, CMB, photon, quantum vacuum, fluctuations of the quantum vacuum energy density, reduction-state processes of creation/annihilation of quantaAbstract
A model of a three-dimensional quantum vacuum defined by the processes of creation/annihilation of quanta corresponding to elementary energy density fluctuations is proposed. In it, a photon is not a primary physical reality but emerges itself as a special state of the three-dimensional quantum vacuum. In this model, the three-dimensional quantum vacuum has a ground state which acts as a “cosmic reservoir” of photons, which emits and absorbs photons and Planck’s law of the spectral distribution of the energy radiated by a black body derives from the fundamental processes in the three-dimensional quantum vacuum, in particular, in the context of a quantization volume responsible for the appearance of photons. Finally, the idea of the Lamb shift of hydrogenoid atoms as a phenomenon determined by the ground state of the quantum vacuum which acts as a reservoir of photons is explored.
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