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

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Theoretical Physics: The Cosmological Constant

The heat death of the universe is a big problem for theoretical physics. The cosmological constant can be manipulated in many plausible ways, says Dyson. A sufficiently advanced civilization could bleed off thecosmological constant as we bled down the rules of physics to extract energy from it. If this was done then all would not be lost and we'd be able to control the expansion of the universe.

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