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The cosmological constant has the same effect as an intrinsic... A positive vacuum energy density resulting from a cosmological constant implies a negative pressure... but the energy density due to the cosmological constant remains unchanged throughout the history of the universe... Einstein included the cosmological constant as a term in his... Einstein abandoned the cosmological constant and called it the... the cosmological constant remained a subject of theoretical and empirical interest... either introduced a cosmological constant on theoretical grounds or found that it arose naturally from the mathematics... claimed that the cosmological constant version of the vacuum field equation expressed the... but the cosmological constant is in most respects the most... predict a huge cosmological constant from the energy of the quantum... then we would expect a cosmological constant of the order of... the measured cosmological constant is smaller than this by a factor of 10... theories require a cosmological constant that is exactly zero... a positive cosmological constant has surprising consequences... the cosmological constant gradually diminishes over many cycles to the small value observed today... in cosmological constant and a correspondingly modified de Sitter general relativity...

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