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Vacuum Energy and Cosmic Acceleration

United States · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Steven Weinberg2000

Dark Energy Theory · Science / Astronomy

Weinberg examines the cosmological constant and vacuum energy after the discovery of acceleration, emphasizing the unresolved theoretical origin of the observed energy scale.

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Steven Weinberg

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