Four lectures on quasi-local mass — mentioned by codethief

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:01:07 GMT

> Combined with the other observation that our universe has uniform density at large scales s/has/had at the time of recombination It is largely an assumption of LCDM that we can treat the universe as practically homogeneous throughout its entire evolution but potentially not a very well-founded at that [0, 1]. > I always felt uncomfortable with that characterization. It seems more reasonable to me to think of dark energy as _negative energy_ - i.e. a loss of overall energy. Your intuition is correct. If the Lambda term in the Einstein field equations is moved over to the side of the energy…

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Four lectures on quasi-local mass — mentioned by codethief