"At about the time of Malcadena's discovery, physicists started to become convinced (by cosmologists) that we live in a world with a nonvanishing cosmological constant [footnote: 10-23 in Planck units...[t]he incredible smallness... had fooled almost all physicists into believing that it didn't exist.], smaller by far than any other physical constant... the main determinant of the future history of the universe... also known as ... a thorn in the side of physicists for almost a century. ...If \Lambda is positive, the cosomological term creates a repulsive force that increases with distance; if it is negative, the new force is attractive; if \Lambda is zero, there is no new force and we can ignore it."
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Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (2008)
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