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

The Quanta Podcast

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The Cosmological Constant Problem

Albert einstein showed that the energy of space has a gravitationally repulsive effect. If space were infused with a planchian density of energy, the universe would have ripped itself apart moments after the big bang. But this hasn't happened and cosmologists observe that space's expansion is accelerating only slowly. Garcia says, it seems like we're limited by a current theory.

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