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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 49-55出版社
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271801000627
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Recent astrophysical observations seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is small but nonzero and positive. The old cosmological constant problem asks why it is so small; we must now ask, in addition, why it is nonzero (and is in the range found by recent observations), and why it is positive. In this essay, we try to kill these three metaphorical birds with one stone. That stone is the unimodular theory of gravity, which is the ordinary theory of gravity, except for the way the cosmological constant arises in the theory. We argue that the cosmological constant becomes dynamical, and eventually, in terms of the cosmic scale factor R(t), it takes the form Lambda (t) = Lambda (t(O))(R(t(O))/R(t))(2) but not before the epoch corresponding to the redshift parameter z similar to 1.
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