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28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of Dark Energy

Einstein wanted a model which was static. He hoped that the universe was static. The steady state model is again the same sort of appeal in some way. It's certainly well explained by this Einstein, cosmological constant. And it's the only thing you can really do to Einstein's equations without wrecking them. You just add this term, and he didn't like to do this at first,. but then I think, I guess he thought, well, let's put it in...

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