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It's worth noting that there is an explanation for dark energy, namely quantum fluctuations of the vacuum. It's also worth noting that this explanation is off by over 100 orders of magnitude, which lead to it being called "the worst prediction in physics". Oddly enough we haven't come up with a better explanation as far as I know, the current assumption is just that the mass somehow almost cancels out.



It's not the fluctuations, but the zero-point energy.

In a supersymmetric theory the number exactly cancels. If the Standard Model is some low-energy EFT of a supersymmetric theory, it could be almost-0.




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