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Does Nothingness Exist?

The Joy of Why

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The Mystery of the Cosmological Constant

The smallness of the cosmological constant is one of the giant mysteries in physics today. It remains the most conceptually puzzling problem in particle physics. In a sense, the vacuum is sort of like the starting point of any theory. The properties of these vacuum states influence the properties of everything else that you're going to build on top of it.

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