v 1 4 J an 1 99 9 IS THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT NON - ZERO ?
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The present talk is similar to one at COSMO-98 last month. As is well explained in standard reviews of the cosmological constant [1, 2] the theoretical expectation for Λ exceeds its observational value by 120 orders of magnitude. In 1917, Einstein looked for a static solution of general relativity for cosmology and added a new λ term:
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تاریخ انتشار 1999