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Modern Physics 现代物理, 2014, 4, 62-79 Published Online July 2014 in Hans. /journal/mp /10.12677/mp.2014.44009 Quantum Vacuum Energy and Its Implication to Gravitational Gauge Theory Jianqi Shen Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Email: jqshen@ th rd rd Received: May 16 , 2014; revised: May 23 , 2014; accepted: Jun. 3 , 2014 Copyright © 2014 by author and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Since electromagnetic gauge theory and its generalization (Yang-Mills gauge field theory) have succeeded in quantum field theory and particle physics, it requires that the theory of gravitation also be a gauge field theory under certain local gauge symmetries, e.g., local Lorentz or Poincaré invariance. The discrepancy between unusually large quantum vacuum energy density and ob- servational cosmology may indicate that the generic gravity theory of Einstein is a low-energy phenomenological theory, and a more fundamental theory of gravity might be hidden behind it. A new spin-connection gauge theory for gravitational interaction at high energies (close to the Planck energy scale) is introduced. In such a gravitational gauge field theory, the local Lorentz group is the gauge symmetry group, and the spin-affine connection serves as a non-Abel gauge field (fundamental dynamical variable). A third-order differential equation of metric can be ob- tained as the gravitational gaug