{"id":315,"date":"2010-10-17T12:53:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T12:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junq.info\/?p=315"},"modified":"2011-02-16T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:32:23","slug":"what-is-the-value-of-the-cosmological-constant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/junq.info\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"What is the value of the cosmological constant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i> Question of the Week, 18.10.2010 <\/i><\/p>\n<p>It was first introduced by Einstein to ensure that his field equations allow for a stationary universe. However, when the expansion of the universe was established experimentally, Einstein called the constant the &#8220;biggest blunder&#8221; of his life and abandoned it. Modern experimental observations suggest a small positive value, while most quantum field theories predict a huge value.<\/p>\n<p>For a review of the physics and cosmology of the cosmological constant see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/relativity.livingreviews.org\/Articles\/lrr-2001-1\/\">http:\/\/relativity.livingreviews.org\/Articles\/lrr-2001-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Jagau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was first introduced by Einstein to ensure that his field equations allow for a stationary universe. However, when the expansion of the universe was established experimentally, Einstein called the constant the &#8220;biggest blunder&#8221; of his life and abandoned it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}