# Questions regarding Einstein's "cosmological constant"

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 19, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-regarding-einsteins-cosmological-constant/705038 "2014-11-19T03:01:59Z")
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### Author: ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-regarding-einsteins-cosmological-constant/705038/19 "2014-11-22T16:45:02Z")

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I was positive I had posted to this thread. Somehow I managed to put it in a completely different thread. I’ve never done that before. So long, mind, it was nice knowing you.

Anyway, here it is, still somewhat useful.

> [@Dark Matter and Dark Energy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dark-matter-and-dark-energy/705076/8):
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> I very much like the explanation that Pedro G. Ferreira, a professor of astrophysics, gives in [The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity](http://books.google.com/books?id=ceswAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=pedro+ferreira&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iMdsVPavDIiTyQTPjoKwAQ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=pedro%20ferreira&f=false).
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> Chapter 3, “Correct Mathematics, Abominable Physics,” starting on page 28, outlines the cosmological constant. Although only the first six pages are given online, they cover the reasoning behind it and why others quickly realized what the equations really implied.

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