Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session T11: Quantum Aspects of Black Holes and de Sitter Space
3:30 PM–5:18 PM,
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Governor's Square 17
Sponsoring
Unit:
DGRAV
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Abstract: T11.00008 : A radical proposal for the cosmological constant problem*
4:54 PM–5:06 PM
Presenter:
Steven J Carlip
(University of California, Davis)
Author:
Steven J Carlip
(University of California, Davis)
If our universe has a large cosmological constant, would we necessarily know? The obvious answer depends on an assumption of homogeneity, which may fail at the Planck scale if Λ comes from quantum fluctuations. I show that a large set of initial data describe a universe with small average expansion even with an enormous cosmological constant. Questions about time evolution remain, but it is possible that a large Λ can produce Planck scale "spacetime foam" while remaining hidden macroscopically.
*This work was funded in part by Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-91ER40674.
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