The Problem With the Cosmic Constant

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I was thinking about in the case of Nukem's paradox, if you believe in quantum mechanics, then the existence of this kind of spooky being who knows exactly what the future is going to hold. I don't think that many worlds either implies eternalism or is against it or anything like that. You can be classical eternalist perfectly well or a bony eternalist or whatever. All right, I'm going to group two questions together. What would the Planck scale have to be for the number to be as small as the observed cosmological constant?

Welcome to the August 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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