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AMA | August 2023
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Mystery of the Cosmological Constant
The real impact of the cosmological constant problem comes from imagining that you treat it as the sum of many different contributions. So there's a vacuum energy in a different quantum field, but there's a separate contribution to the vacuum energy from the electromagnetic field and from the neutrino fields. And the mystery is why in the world do all these positive and negative numbers add up to give you such a tiny number? That's the mystery.
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