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Loading contentThe vast mismatch between the tiny dark-energy density measured in the Universe and the enormous vacuum energy that naive quantum theory predicts — a discrepancy of many tens of orders of magnitude. Often called the worst prediction in physics, it remains one of the deepest unsolved problems where quantum theory meets gravity.
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