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H' is incorrect. The ground state of the harmonic oscillator will still have kinetic and potential energy and the sum of these energies will still be $\hbar \omega/2$. These energies contribute to inertial and gravitational mass, but this would be practically impossible to demonstrate experimentally. Also, the zero point energy gives rise to the Casimir Polder effect. This effect is very real and needs to be taken into account in the design of MEMSs (micro-electromechanical systems).

In QFT an infinite continuum of degrees of freedom is postulated, to be compared with a finite number of DoF in condensed matter. This causes a quasi infinite vacuum energy, only limited if the universe is indeed finite. This infinite ZPE can of course not be real. One way to solve this is to use H', but then you lose very real physics. The alternative is to consider only those harmonic oscillators that correspond to actual system DoF, as in condensed matter physics.

As to the question whether the Casimir-Polder effect is due to 'real' interactions or ZPE, I believe it is the same thing. The boundary conditions of the ZPE calculation are just an abstraction of metal plates. Boundary conditions that apply to all energies are unphysical. Physicists should not entertain $\it two$ superficially entirely different explanations for $\it one$ phenomenon, depending on the relevant field of physics.

This analysis solves the infamous Cosmological constant problem, which is part of the list of unsolved problems in physics.

/whining However, I have no expectation that a manuscript with this analysis will ever be accepted by $\it any$ journal. /whining

H' is incorrect. The ground state of the harmonic oscillator will still have kinetic and potential energy and the sum of these energies will still be $\hbar \omega/2$. These energies contribute to inertial and gravitational mass, but this would be practically impossible to demonstrate experimentally. Also, the zero point energy gives rise to the Casimir Polder effect. This effect is very real and needs to be taken into account in the design of MEMSs (micro-electromechanical systems).

In QFT an infinite continuum of degrees of freedom is postulated, to be compared with a finite number of DoF in condensed matter. This causes a quasi infinite vacuum energy, only limited if the universe is indeed finite. This infinite ZPE can of course not be real. One way to solve this is to use H', but then you lose very real physics. The alternative is to consider only those harmonic oscillators that correspond to actual system DoF, as in condensed matter physics.

As to the question whether the Casimir-Polder effect is due to 'real' interactions or ZPE, I believe it is the same thing. The boundary conditions of the ZPE calculation are just an abstraction of metal plates. Boundary conditions that apply to all energies are unphysical. Physicists should not entertain $\it two$ superficially entirely different explanations for $\it one$ phenomenon, depending on the relevant field of physics.

This analysis solves the infamous Cosmological constant problem, which is part of the list of unsolved problems in physics.

/whining However, I have no expectation that a manuscript with this analysis will ever be accepted by $\it any$ journal. Publishing without a scientific affiliation, even with a scientific record has become impossible./whining

Fundamentally H' is incorrect. The ground state of the harmonic oscillator will still have kinetic and potential energy and the sum of these energies will still be $\hbar \omega/2$. These energies contribute to inertial and gravitational mass, but this would be practically impossible to demonstrate experimentally. Also, the zero point energy gives rise to the Casimir Polder effect. This effect is very real and needs to be taken into account in the design of MEMSs (micro-electromechanical systems).

In QFT an infinite continuum of degrees of freedom is postulated, to be compared with a finite number of DoF in condensed matter. This causes a quasi infinite vacuum energy, only limited if the universe is indeed finite. This infinite ZPE can of course not be real. One way to solve this is to use H', but then you lose very real physics. The alternative is to consider only those harmonic oscillators that correspond to actual system DoF, as in condensed matter physics.

As to the question whether the Casimir-Polder effect is due to 'real' interactions or ZPE, I believe it is the same thing. The boundary conditions of the ZPE calculation are just an abstraction of metal plates. Boundary conditions that apply to all energies are unphysical. Physicists should not entertain $\it two$ superficially entirely different explanations for $\it one$ phenomenon, depending on the relevant field of physics.

This analysis solves the infamous Cosmological constant problem, which is part of the list of unsolved problems in physics.

/whining However, I have no expectation that a manuscript with this analysis will ever be accepted by $\it any$ journal. /whining

In cases where ZPE is irrelevant use H' by all means.

H' is incorrect. The ground state of the harmonic oscillator will still have kinetic and potential energy and the sum of these energies will still be $\hbar \omega/2$. These energies contribute to inertial and gravitational mass, but this would be practically impossible to demonstrate experimentally. Also, the zero point energy gives rise to the Casimir Polder effect. This effect is very real and needs to be taken into account in the design of MEMSs (micro-electromechanical systems).

In QFT an infinite continuum of degrees of freedom is postulated, to be compared with a finite number of DoF in condensed matter. This causes a quasi infinite vacuum energy, only limited if the universe is indeed finite. This infinite ZPE can of course not be real. One way to solve this is to use H', but then you lose very real physics. The alternative is to consider only those harmonic oscillators that correspond to actual system DoF, as in condensed matter physics.

As to the question whether the Casimir-Polder effect is due to 'real' interactions or ZPE, I believe it is the same thing. The boundary conditions of the ZPE calculation are just an abstraction of metal plates. Boundary conditions that apply to all energies are unphysical. Physicists should not entertain $\it two$ superficially entirely different explanations for $\it one$ phenomenon, depending on the relevant field of physics.

This analysis solves the infamous Cosmological constant problem, which is part of the list of unsolved problems in physics.

/whining However, I have no expectation that a manuscript with this analysis will ever be accepted by $\it any$ journal. /whining

Fundamentally H' is incorrect. The ground state of the harmonic oscillator will still have kinetic and potential energy and the sum of these energies will still be $\hbar \omega/2$. These energies contribute to inertial and gravitational mass, but this would be practically impossible to demonstrate experimentally. Also, the zero point energy gives rise to the Casimir Polder effect. This effect is real and needs to be taken into account in the design of MEMSs (micro-electromechanical systems).

In QFT an infinite continuum of degrees of freedom is postulated, to be compared with a finite number of DoF in condensed matter. This causes a quasi infinite vacuum energy, only limited if the universe is indeed finite. This infinite ZPE can of course not be real. One way to solve this is to use H', but then you lose very real physics. The alternative is to consider only those harmonic oscillators that correspond to actual system DoF, as in condensed matter physics.

As to the question whether the Casimir-Polder effect is due to 'real' interactions or ZPE, I believe it is the same thing. The boundary conditions of the ZPE calculation are just an abstraction of metal plates. Boundary conditions that apply to all energies are unphysical. Physicists should not entertain $\it two$ superficially entirely different explanations for $\it one$ phenomenon, depending on the relevant field of physics.

This analysis solves the infamous Cosmological constant problem.

In cases where ZPE is irrelevant use H' by all means.

Fundamentally H' is incorrect. The ground state of the harmonic oscillator will still have kinetic and potential energy and the sum of these energies will still be $\hbar \omega/2$. These energies contribute to inertial and gravitational mass, but this would be practically impossible to demonstrate experimentally. Also, the zero point energy gives rise to the Casimir Polder effect. This effect is very real and needs to be taken into account in the design of MEMSs (micro-electromechanical systems).

In QFT an infinite continuum of degrees of freedom is postulated, to be compared with a finite number of DoF in condensed matter. This causes a quasi infinite vacuum energy, only limited if the universe is indeed finite. This infinite ZPE can of course not be real. One way to solve this is to use H', but then you lose very real physics. The alternative is to consider only those harmonic oscillators that correspond to actual system DoF, as in condensed matter physics.

As to the question whether the Casimir-Polder effect is due to 'real' interactions or ZPE, I believe it is the same thing. The boundary conditions of the ZPE calculation are just an abstraction of metal plates. Boundary conditions that apply to all energies are unphysical. Physicists should not entertain $\it two$ superficially entirely different explanations for $\it one$ phenomenon, depending on the relevant field of physics.

This analysis solves the infamous Cosmological constant problem, which is part of the list of unsolved problems in physics.

/whining However, I have no expectation that a manuscript with this analysis will ever be accepted by $\it any$ journal. /whining

In cases where ZPE is irrelevant use H' by all means.