The Setterfield-Miller Zero-Point Field Framework
Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Field Theory are the best frameworks that we have to explain the physics of the universe. That said, it is still not a complete theory and has decades old unresolved issues. SED physics is unique becase it says that real zero point energy field fluctuations exist and that they are physical reason behind the quantum effects of QED/QFT. The problem is that plugging in a real ZPE does not magically fix everything. SED physics by itself is not the answer. Ontologicaly it is appealing becasue it offers a physical reason for quantum effects. The problem is that mathematics of SED doesn't fulfill that ontology. Something is still missing between QED/QFT and SED.
Barry Setterfield's life's work was to take SED and compare it to QED and and show how from an ontological perspective, real vacuum fluctions being responsible for quantum effects makes a lot of sense when you look at the cumulitive evidence. That being said Setterfield's work and his monograph "Cosmology and the Zero Point Energy" are not perfect.
The present work set out to reconcile Setterfield as well as conditionally reconcile the ground state of the hydrogen atom. I leave it up to public scrutiny as to if that has been accomplished in this present work. If it has, it is my belief that this work provides a crucial and imperitive path forward for physics.
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