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AMA | June 2023
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Cosmological Constant and the Energy Density in the Vacuum
The energy density and empty space itself is not significantly greater than zero. The cosmological constant has divergent quantum corrections in our ordinary understanding of quantum field theory. Even if we don't know why, it's plausible to imagine theories that would make the vacuum energy exactly zero.
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