Sequestration of vacuum energy and the end of the universe

Recently, we proposed a mechanism for sequestering the standard model vacuum energy that predicts that the Universe will collapse. Here we present a simple mechanism for bringing about this collapse, employing a scalar field whose potential is linear and becomes negative, providing the negative ener...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kaloper, Nemanja, Padilla, Antonio
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35320/