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gr-qc1999
Cosmic acceleration and a natural solution to the cosmological constant problem
Philip D. Mannheim
We trace the origin of the cosmological constant problem to the assumption that Newton's constant sets the scale for cosmology. And then we show that once this assumption is re…
astro-ph1999
Conformal gravity and a natural solution to the cosmological constant problem
Philip D. Mannheim
With attempts to quench the cosmological constant having so far failed, we instead investigate what could be done if is not quenched and actually gets to be as big as eleme…