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A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature's Laws

The Quanta Podcast

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The C K N Bound Predicts the Cosmological Constant

Draper and his colleagues study the c k n bound, named for the authors of the 19 99 paper. They realized that this represented a strange u v i r relationship. The size of the box, which sets the i r scale, severely limits the number of high energy particle states within the box - also known as the v scale. If their same bound applies to our entire universe, it resolves the cosmological constant problem.

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