Problems with the Cosmological Constant Problem

Keywords

Cosmological constant, Cosmological constant problem, Theoretical physics, Physics, Vacuum energy

References

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• Betting on Future PhysicsMike D. Schneider — 2020
• Theory construction in high-energy particle physicsAdam Koberinski — 2019
• Mass and Energy Densities of the CosmosOgaba Philip Obande — 2019
• Regularizing (Away) Vacuum EnergyAdam Koberinski — 2021
• Dogmas of Effective Field Theory: Scheme Dependence, Fundamental Parameters, and the Many Faces of the Higgs Naturalness PrincipleJoshua Rosaler — 2021
• Λ and the Limits of Effective Field TheoryAdam Koberinski, Chris Smeenk — 2022
• Quantum gravity at low energies.David K. Wallace — 2021
• Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories.Adam Koberinski, Doreen Fraser — 2023
• Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on the Cosmological ConstantAdam Koberinski, Bridget Falck, Chris Smeenk — 2022
• The Breakdown of Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics: Lessons for Understanding Intertheoretic RelationsAdam Koberinski — 2024
• Why did the dark matter hypothesis supersede modified gravity in the 1980s?Antonis Antoniou — 2025
• Mass and Energy Densities of the CosmosOgaba Philip Obande — 2019
• Trace-Free Gravitational Theory (aka Unimodular Gravity) for PhilosophersJ. Earman — 2022
• Λ and the limits of effective field theoryAdam Koberinski, C. Smeenk — 2022
• Establishing a Theory of Inflationary CosmologyAdam Koberinski, Chris Smeenk

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