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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Mystery of the Cosmological Constant

The mystery is not that there is a cosmological constant, but that it's so small without quite being zero. So many people have been driven to the multiverse and the anthropic principle because of exactly these reasons. We just happen to be in a region where it's not quite zero, but it's sort of conducive to life. And that's the anthropic argument for the cosmological Constant.

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