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We were asked to discuss the cosmological constant problem and will use this opportunity to present a few ideas on the subject. We should say at the outset that none of these ideas is quite satifactory and that we do not have, at the moment, any credible way of solving this nagging problem. Nevertheless, we feel that a discussion of various aspects of the problem may still be useful, and it is in this spirit of tentative gropings toward a solution that we present this talk.
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Zee, A. (1985). Remarks on the Cosmological Constant Problem. In: Mintz, S.L., Perlmutter, A. (eds) High-Energy Physics. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8848-7_16
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