The report shows “that fine-tuning is not a solved problem,” Lewis says. Cosmological constants directly influenced the formation of life through the creation of stars and the elements ...

New modification to gravity may explain the cosmological constant. ... (to the tune of 10 120) ... This fine-tuning bothers people because there is simply no way to obtain these numbers naturally.

Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A ...

The cosmological constant is presumably an enigmatic form of matter or energy that acts in opposition to gravity and is considered by many physicists to be equivalent to dark energy. Nobody really ...

The cosmological constant was one of the variables Sorini’s team manipulated to determine if we are living in a universe that is maximally efficient at producing stars.

And without such variation, the fine-tuning problem is even worse: we now have a huge number of monkeys all of whom are typing English. At this point, many bring in string theory .

There are proposals for how this fine-tuning may have happened—for example, we could be an extremely rare universe with a habitable value for the vacuum energy among a multitude of desolate ones.

These spacetime Orbeez require only a bit of fine-tuning from theories that are already in the zeitgeist. ... “an effective cosmological constant,” appears when you apply the Gauss-Bonnet ...

These spacetime Orbeez require only a bit of fine-tuning from theories that are already in the zeitgeist. ... “an effective cosmological constant,” appears when you apply the Gauss-Bonnet ...

The fine-tuning Contributions 2 and 3 are calculable in theory, and end up supplying an enormous amount of energy that should make the universe smaller than the proton. But contribution 1 is unknown.