  A new vision of the beginning and expansion of our universe has produced a
solution to the vacuum energy problem (also known as "cosmological constant
problem"). A new dynamic of cellular spaces and a discrete time has space being
produced by a process called spatial condensation (SC). With generic energy
defined as Planck's constant times the rate of cellular space production, both
the vacuum energy and mass energy contents contribute to the expansion in the
ratio 10^123/1, the same ratio of predicted densities by quantum theory and our
astronomers. However, unlike mass energy, vacuum energy, like Casimir vacuum
energy, does not carry the attribute of mass and so does not gravitate. A
geometric derivation of the vacuum energy expansion rate was followed by a
second derivation in terms of the evolution of the contents, from radiation to
matter to dark mass (not matter). With a new definition of cosmic time, the
second derivation was shown to produce exactly the same expansion rate. Free of
singularities and inflation, both derivations also produced reasonable values
of the cosmological parameters and the second derivation produced a good fit to
the supernova Ia data with no acceleration of the expansion rate.
