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alistair
Sep25-04, 05:00 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>The energy of the vacuum is calculated at 10^120 J/m^3.\nThe cutoff energy used to gain this figure is 10^19 J.\nWhat cutoff energy is needed to get an energy density\nwhich matches observation (about 10^-10 J / m^3)?\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>The energy of the vacuum is calculated at 10^120 J/m^3.
The cutoff energy used to gain this figure is 10^19 J.
What cutoff energy is needed to get an energy density
which matches observation (about 10^-10 J / m^3)?