Zusammenfassung für den Vortrag am 05.05.2015 (16:00 Uhr)

Colloquium of the Faculty of Physics and Geosciences

Klaus Fredenhagen (Universität Hamburg)
The vacuum is not empty: fluctuations, virtual particles, Casimir forces and dark energy

The concept of the vacuum is analyzed, and it is shown that the idea of an empty

space is in contradiction to basic principles of quantum field theory.