Why we’ve got the cosmological constant all wrong

(PhysOrg.com) — Some scientists call the cosmological constant the “worst prediction of physics.” And when today’s theories give an estimated value that is about 120 orders of magnitude larger than the measured value, it’s hard to argue with that title. In a new study, a team of physicists has taken a different view of the cosmological constant, Λ, which drives the accelerated expansion of the universe

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Why we’ve got the cosmological constant all wrong