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What nonsense.


The cosmological constant is that value (described by capital lambda) multiplied to the metric tensor. What that term does is to ascribe a negative energy density to vacuum that counters gravity. Its the third term in the standard formulation of the field equation.


Depending on the value you ascribe to lambda, the universe could contract, stay still, expand at either an accelerating or decelerating rate.


The idea is completely EINSTEIN'S and was revived when hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. And to further demonstrate einstein's predisposition to the divine, a russian physicist named friedmann independently derived the field equation without the cosmological constant.


Don't waste anyone's time with your patent ignorance.


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