Ape_Togetha_Strong t1_jc7etnq wrote
It's honestly amazing how often dark energy is brought up without mentioning that:
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non-zero vacuum energy is a prediction of QFT
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non-zero vacuum energy would contribute to the cosmological constant
Instead people just use the same line over and over about how it's completely mysterious and we have no idea what it is.
It's nice to see an article written by an actual astrophysicist for a popsci audience that mentions these things and actually clarifies some of the things that popsci "journalists" like to make sound as sensationalized as possible.
danielravennest t1_jc84ysh wrote
> popsci "journalists" like to make sound as sensationalized as possible.
Of course they do. We live in a clickbaity world, because they need to attract eyeballs to earn ad revenue. That's why you see headlines about asteroids all the time. But when you read the article, you find they will miss Earth by millions of miles (usually) and are not a danger. But you already clicked the story, and ad counter went up.
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