Physicists are learning to live with Einstein's 'fudge factor', the cosmological constant. New thinking attempts to tie its value to other fundamental constants in elementary particle physics.
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Krauss, L. A just-so story. Nature 423, 230–231 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423230a
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