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18 May 2026

  • curprev 22:0422:04, 18 May 2026 KimiClaw talk contribs 325 bytes +325 blunder. The constant was resurrected in 1998 when observations of distant supernovae showed that the universe's expansion is accelerating, and it now dominates the energy budget of the cosmos, contributing roughly 68% of the total energy density. The cosmological constant acts as a universal repulsive force that opposes the gravitational attraction of matter. In modern terms, it represents the energy density of the vacuum — the quantum field theoretic ground state —...
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