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The value of the cosmological constant arising from a crystalline model for vacuum cosmic space with lattice parameter of the order of the neutron radius [1] has been calculated. The model allows to solve, in an easy way, the problem of the…

We consider a possibility that the cosmological constant may not be a constant, but a free thermodynamical variable. To this end we construct a microscopic model of a spacelike two-sphere just inside of the cosmological horizon of the de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Jarmo Mäkelä

In this paper we continue the investigations in \cite{1} concerning the origin of the cosmological constant. First of all, we generalise the results in \cite{1,2} by considering a continuum approximation for a radiation field in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-23 Stefano Viaggiu

The old cosmological-constant (CC) problem indicates an inconsistency of the usual formulation of semiclassical gravity. The usual formulation of semiclassical gravity also seems to be inconsistent with the conventional interpretation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Nikolic

A new approach to the cosmological constant problem is proposed by modifying Einstein's theory of general relativity, using instead a scalar-tensor theory of gravitation. This theory of gravity crucially incorporates the concept of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-28 Thomas L. Wilson

Using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle it is shown that the gravitational stability condition for a crystalline vacuum cosmic space implies to obtain an equation formally equivalent to the relation first used by Gamow to predict the…

The idea of possible time or space variations of the `fundamental' constants of nature, although not new, is only now beginning to be actively considered by large numbers of researchers in the particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. J. A. P. Martins

ElectroMagnetic Quantum Gravity (EMQG) is applied to the problem of the Cosmological Constant. EMQG is a quantum gravity theory (ref. 1) in which the virtual particles of the quantum vacuum play a very important role in all gravitational…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Ostoma , Mike Trushyk

We suggest a new formula, which allows the Schwarzschild's solution and the Einstein radius to be applied to the dynamic universe, when our universe is hypothetically regarded as a single dynamic black hole. In this study, a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-22 DongBong Yang , Heon-Ju Lee

We study the problem of the cosmological constant in the context of the multiverse in Lorentzian spacetime, and show that the cosmological constant will vanish in the future. This sort of argument was started from Coleman in 1989, and he…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Hikaru Kawai , Takashi Okada

We have critically compared different approaches to the cosmological constant problem, which is at the edge of elementary particle physics and cosmology. This problem is deeply connected with the difficulties formulating a theory of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Nobbenhuis

The work shows that the associated Einstein like gravity for the Klein-Gordon field shows the spontaneous emergence of the cosmological pressure tensor density (CPTD) that in the classical limit leads to the cosmological constant (CC). Even…

General Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Piero Chiarelli

These four lectures cover four topics in modern cosmology: the cosmological constant, the cosmic microwave background, inflation, and cosmology as a probe of physics at the Planck scale. The underlying theme is that cosmology gives us a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 William H. Kinney

The possibility of extending the quantum mechanical superposition principle to free parameters such as the cosmological constant appearing in the Lagrangian of physical theories is examined. If the cosmological constant is subject to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-15 Josily Cyriac

It is shown that Einstein field equations give two solutions for cosmology. The first one is the standard well known representative of the present status of cosmology. We identify it with the local point of view of a flat Universe with the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-04 Antonio Alfonso-Faus

The existence of a small, non-zero cosmological constant is one of the major puzzles in fundamental physics. Naively, quantum field theory arguments would imply a cosmological constant which is up to 10$^{120}$ times larger than the…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Michael Bishop , Joey Contreras , Peter Martin , Douglas Singleton

In this work, we study the cosmological constant problem and Hubble tension in the void-dominated cosmology scenario \cite{Yusofi:2022hgg}. For this goal, we will first consider the cosmic voids in the cosmic web as interconnected ideal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 E. Yusofi , M. A. Ramzanpour

The case for a flat Cold Dark Matter model with a positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$ has been recently strongly advocated by some theoreticians. In this paper we give the observers point of view to the light of the most recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Fort , Y. Mellier

We develop a new model for the Universe based on two key assumptions: first, the inertial energy of the Universe is a constant, and second, the total energy of a particle, the inertial plus the gravitational potential energy produced by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hossein Shojaie , Mehrdad Farhoudi

In a recent article we showed that the analog of the cosmological constant in two spacetime dimensions for a wide variety of integrable quantum field theories has the form $\rho_{\rm vac} = - m^2 /2 \mathfrak{g} $ where $m$ is a physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 André LeClair
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