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| Description | Speaker: Nemanja Kaloper Title: A Quantum-Mechanical Mechanism for Reducing the Cosmological Constant Room: 3024 Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/186024391 Host: Terning Abstract: We exhibit a mechanism which dynamically adjusts cosmological constant toward $0^+$. The adjustment is quantum-mechanical, discharging cosmological constant in random discrete steps. It renders de Sitter space unstable, and triggers its decay toward Minkowski. Since the instability dynamically stops at $\Lambda = 0$, the evolution favors the terminal Minkowski space without a need for anthropics. The mechanism works for any QFT coupled to gravity. |
| Date | Mon, June 6, 2022 |
| Time | 1:30pm-3:00pm PDT |
| Duration | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Access | Public |
| Created by | High-Energy Seminars |
| Updated | Mon, May 9, 2022 11:18am PDT |
