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the other day i mailed a friend - i havent seen in 10 years - he is writing his doctor in quantum mechanics as we speak and has been at various universities - he didnt know haramein before but his reply was pretty harsh - i will translate from german:

I am sorry, i just dont understand why people seek their intellectual kicks at people such as mr. haramein instead of starting with known physics which is fantastic enough. Why don't you start by learning to understand quantum mechanics and the the relativity theory from well-established physicists which is mind blowing enough. People like haramein always seem the same - they understand the half of something or use just a quote out of the full context without having understood the full theory correctly and draw heir own conclusions/theories out of that.

for example renormalization: he speaks about how sceptic physicists in teh 60ies, in a time where al this wasnt as well understood as now - however in fact this is not just a very physical (meaning it has a direct physical interpretation) phenomenon, but also is used as selection criteria for theories. Only theories that are renormalizable are really fundamental.
renormalization itself is the process that depicts how a theory changes when the energy scale ( or lenght scale) is changed. for example if you start with a theory that describes activites on 0.1nm and you then average groups of particles - so that you dont use every single particle but every averaged group as fundamental size (=variable). and what happens when you switch from one scale to another is called renormalization. Of course the vacuume everything but empty, but we know that for 80 years already. however when you try to pull energy from the vacuum ( = particles) this is only possible when something else ( no tthe vacuum) looses energy.
for example hawking radiation of black holes is exactly that.
but to state the vacuum has infinite energy is nonsense.
This is the result of "your theory" and the reason is that in the beginning "you" assumed that the "constants" of "my theory" (for example electric charges or mass of my particles) is the same on all scales. however, this is not the case and has been measured very very accurately, that the constants change form scale to scale (=running coupling constants).

The process of this misinterpretation ( = that constants are really constant which result is infinite enrgy of the vacuum) is called renormalization, where you look exactly how the theory and coupling constants behave on a different scale.

to say the vacuum has infinite energy simply shows this haramein doesnt really understand it.

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hope my translation makes sense in english - i wanted to share and maybe there are some physical fit people here to take the discussion further