2009

Stellar Black Holes and the Origin of Cosmic Acceleration

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, Afshordi, Niayesh, Balogh, Michael L.

Understand

The discovery of cosmic acceleration has presented a unique challenge for cosmologists.

  • As observational cosmology forges ahead, theorists have struggled to make sense of a standard model that requires extreme fine tuning.
  • This challenge is known as the cosmological constant problem.
  • The theory of gravitational aether is an alternative to general relativity that does not suffer from this fine-tuning problem, as it decouples the quantum field theory vacuum from geometry, while remaining consistent with other tests of gravity.

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