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AMA | August 2023

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

CHAPTER

The Cosmological Constant and the Expansion of the Universe

If I had a dial that let me manipulate the value of the cosmological constant, do any phenomenological distinctions remain? Joy Colbeck says gravitational waves from separate black hole neutron star mergers constructively and destructively interfere. Sam Hartzog: Outside of the obvious difference in rate, how does cosmic inflation in the early universe differ from the expansion we observed today?

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