How to Use cosmological constant in a Sentence

cosmological constant

noun

• The cosmological constant was little more than a fudge factor, to hold the universe still.
  — Zeeya Merali, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2013
• And so physicists brought the cosmological constant back, but with a new value.
  — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• And the cosmological constant, in turn, is thought to get its energy from the vacuum.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• The price of solving the cosmological constant problem would be to give up the Einsteinian hope of explaining the universe.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• In a way, reviving the cosmological constant made the predicament worse.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
• In other words, if dark energy is the cosmological constant, then w should equal -1.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 30 June 2023
• That means the usual EFT calculation of the cosmological constant is too naive.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• Even those open to the multiverse idea would love to have alternative solutions to the cosmological constant problem to explore.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2018
• The masses of the postulated dark gravitons are, roughly speaking, an integer times a constant, M, whose value is tied to the cosmological constant.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
• In recent years, cosmologists have become able to measure the curvature of the universe, given by a number called the cosmological constant.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• Einstein had invented this idea, called the cosmological constant, to balance gravity and keep the universe static and unchanging.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• In some cases, like with dark energy, Peebles helped show that a cosmological constant can make the Universe work long before the experimental evidence is present.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2019
• The leading explanation by far, of course, is the existence of a smooth and persistent source of energy known as dark energy, of which Einstein's cosmological constant is the simplest and most compelling example.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2011
• For decades, physicists assumed that the cosmological constant was exactly zero.
  — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• Albert Einstein introduced the cosmological constant in 1917 as an additional term in the equation of gravity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2014
• Physicists come by their funny way of tallying contributions to the Higgs mass and cosmological constant honestly.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• As the cosmological constant continues to drive the acceleration of the universe, all the galaxies outside our immediate neighborhood will be too far away to be visible in a few trillion years — their light will simply never reach us.
  — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
• The elements of string theory that Joe developed are intrinsic to recent attempts to better understand how inflation happened and why the cosmological constant is so small.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2018
• Overall there is no evidence from our measurements that the standard cosmological model with lambda, the cosmological constant, is wrong.
  — Kyle Dawson, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• At this point, the cosmological constant came back into fashion as a possible explanation for this mysterious form of energy.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• Now, physicists say, the unnaturalness of the Higgs makes the unnaturalness of the cosmological constant more significant.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 May 2013
• This cosmological constant allowed for a stable universe.
  — NBC News, 14 Mar. 2018
• Then, this changes to describe the universe’s accelerated expansion with an asymptotic value of the cosmological constant state equation.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2023
• What could dark energy actually be? Dark energy shows up in the mathematics of the universe as Einstein’s cosmological constant, but that doesn’t explain what physically causes the universe’s expansion to speed up.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2023
• About 20 years ago, astrophysicists discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, driven by an incredibly small source of energy infused in space, known as the cosmological constant.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2018
• In seminal work in 2000, Polchinski and a collaborator argued that the plethora of solutions of string theory enables the small value of the cosmological constant to be interpreted as a selection effect.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2018
• But there are much more benign examples, such as anti-de Sitter space -- a maximally symmetric spacetime with a negative cosmological constant.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2011
• The data so far is consistent with the idea of dark energy as a simple cosmological constant, a ubiquitous vacuum energy somehow produced by the universe's expansion that generates yet more expansion.
  — Ramin Skibba, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2020
• The work on counting universes arose from an effort to understand a fudge factor known as the cosmological constant, an antigravitational force associated with empty space that Einstein invented in 1917 to explain why the universe was stable.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• To most physicists today, lambda, cosmological constant, and dark energy are closely synonymous.
  — Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2014

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