Tuesday, February 14, 2006 ... //

Cosmological constant seesaw preprint

Michael McGuigan from Brookhaven was brave enough to supplement the ideas about the cosmological constant seesaw mechanism, apparently also discussed in Sean's blog article (although arguably in some hidden way), with dozens or hundreds of equations and interpret the cosmological constant as a squared mass term in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. The result is here

and it is up to you to decide whether the cosmological constant problem has been solved or not.

snail feedback (3) :

Not a chance that they "solved" the CC problem. Come on can any one still do calculations using Arabic numbers? Using the formula they derived, you obtain a CC value which is about two and half orders of magnitude TOO BIG, or, about 380 times too big. When you get a result that is 380 times too big, you are not even any where near the correct solution.

Quantoken

This factor of 380 or whatever is negligible compared to the current problem - factor of 10^122 or 10^60 - and the result 380 times above the observed value is fully comparable to the original upper bound on the CC from Weinberg's anthropic argument.