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Existential Hope Podcast: Adam Brown | A Theoretical Physicist's Take on the Future

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The Worst Discovery We Ever Made

The cosmological constant is this field sometimes called dark energy still not understood at all and only observed in its effects on the expansion of the universe which causes the expansion. Up to that moment was believed to be while it was expanding the expansion was slowing down, but now we know there's no such thing as a 'slowdown' We can't go get some very distant galaxies because they're just going to be ripped away from us by the expansion and we'll never see them again. In terms of what well in that case experimental cosmology taught us about our long-term future that was maybe the most revolutionary point sort of in many ways bad news but maybe well maybe notbut it

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