0-point energy

“The origin of the mass of matter in our universe remains an open question (…)”, as Nassim Haramein points out. When Einstein published the famous formula E = mc² in 1905, he revealed that mass is a form of energy; however, the question of why particles have this property of mass, or how mass is created, remained unanswered. And although, according to current standard theory, dark matter and energy account for around 95% of the mass-energy of the universe, this does not provide any further clues as to the origin of mass.

Nassim Haramein, Cyprien Guermonprez and Olivier Alirol address this question in their paper The origin of mass and the nature of gravity. According to them, everything starts from vacuum energy, and more specifically from 0-point energy; they extend the proton model – whose mass, according to Nassim Haramein’s previous work, takes vacuum energy into account – to the cosmological scale. In this way, they establish a model for the creation of mass and forces, and their mechanics. They then demonstrate that mass – and therefore energy – are emergent properties of the fundamental dynamics of space at the quantum scale, and that this energy then decays through a mechanism known as screening, right up to the cosmological scale.

This series of articles aims to popularize their approach, in order to explore this mechanism and all that it implies for our understanding of the dynamics of our universe.

1- The black body and the ultraviolet catastrophy: From Max Planck’s work on the black body to the development of Planck’s Law, let’s see how this physicist discovered 0-point energy, and thus how quantum physics was born.

2- Origin and implications of 0-point energy: What if Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle were the consequence of 0-point energy, not its cause? An astonishing point of view, which helps to maintain the coherence of quantum theory.

3- 0-point energy, space and mass: Einstein’s field equations, which describe how mass curves spacetime, naturally contain zero-point energy… here we revisit the concepts of mass and space, including infographics!

4- 0-point energy screening and emergence of mass: Spacetime behaves more like a superfluid of coherent quantum energy. Mass and gravity emerge directly from this superfluid; it constitutes and models both space and matter at all scales.

5- 0-point energy, Planck force and gravity: The Planck force is the keystone of Nassim Haramein’s gravitational model. It leads to a reconsideration of gravity, which turns out to be a strong interaction on the quantum scale, particularly in the context of the internal structure of the proton…

6- A synthesis of the paper on the origin of mass and the nature of gravity : Proton, gravity, and vacuum structure
What is the paradigm shift proposed by Nassim Haramein? Using a reformulated version of Einstein’s field equations, he shows that matter (mass) is no longer an external datum, but the internal expression of the structured field. Mass, gravity and entropy are ultimately three facets of a single dynamic: that of a quantum field that has become geometrically active. We could say that they co-emerge, in the sense that all three result from the same process of vacuum energy screening.