The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, a potentially controversial new study suggests. This rethinking of the cosmos also suggests solutions for the puzzles of dark energy and dark matter, ...

We know that the universe is getting bigger. And we know that the speed that the universe is getting bigger is also getting bigger. The standard assumption is that the acceleration rate is itself ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

In a new paper in Physical Review Research ("Strained bilayer graphene, emergent energy scales, and moiré gravity"), JQI Fellow Victor Galitski and JQI graduate student Alireza Parhizkar have explored ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) If you google the “worst prediction ever”, you will get hundreds of results that tell you it was the prediction of the cosmological constant that was infamously 120 orders of ...

The cosmological constant has plagued physicists for more than a century. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There is a fundamental ...

Physicists are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the cosmological constant. On this occasion, two recent articles highlight its role in modern physics and cosmology. Before becoming widely ...

A physicist has proposed a new approach to solving one of the biggest theoretical problems in physics: the cosmological constant. The cosmological constant, introduced a century ago by Albert Einstein ...