Conclusion: the world does not need anything spiritual in order to be explained — Gregory
Conclusion: the world does not need anything spiritual in order to be explained — Gregory
Einstein's cosmological constant was a force that balanced with gravity in order for the universe to have always been in free fall. — Gregory
From the 1930s until the late 1990s, most physicists assumed the cosmological constant to be equal to zero. That changed with the surprising discovery in 1998 that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, implying the possibility of a positive nonzero value for the cosmological constant.
Since the 1990s, studies have shown that around 68% of the mass–energy density of the universe can be attributed to so-called dark energy. The cosmological constant Λ is the simplest possible explanation for dark energy, and is used in the current standard model of cosmology known as the ΛCDM model. While dark energy is poorly understood at a fundamental level [but, nevertheless, a splendid 'explanation for everything!'] the main required properties of dark energy are that it functions as a type of anti-gravity, it dilutes much more slowly than matter as the universe expands, and it clusters much more weakly than matter, or perhaps not at all. — Wikipedia entry on Cosmological Constant
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