About
I will review the cosmological constant problem as a serious challenge to our notion of naturalness in Physics. Weinberg's no go theorem is worked through in detail. I review a number of proposals possibly including Linde's universe multiplication, Coleman's wormholes, the fat graviton, and SLED, to name a few. Large distance modifications of gravity are also discussed, with causality considerations pointing towards a global modification as being the most sensible option. The global nature of the cosmological constant problem is also emphasized, and as a result, the sequestering scenario is reviewed in some detail, demonstrating the cancellation of the Standard Model vacuum energy through a global modification of General Relativity..
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme,2015-2016
- Speaker
- Antonio Padilla
- Year
- 2015
- Level
- Graduate
- Language
- English
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
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