Why space could be quantised on a different scale to matter

The scale of quantum mechanical effects in matter is set by Planck’s constant, \hbarℏ. This represents the quantisation scale for material objects. In this article, we present a simple argument why the quantisation scale for space, and hence for gravity, may not be equal to \hbarℏ. Indeed, assuming a single quantisation scale for both matter and geometry leads to the `worst prediction in physics’, namely, the huge difference between the observed and predicted vacuum energies. Conversely, assuming a different quantum of action for geometry, \beta \ll \hbarβ≪ℏ, allows us to recover the observed density of the Universe. Thus, by measuring its present-day expansion, we may in principle determine, empirically, the scale at which the geometric degrees of freedom should be quantised.