De Sitter Space: The Universe’s Inevitable Future?

• New video in the YouTube series #IFTResponde.

Miguel Montero, researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, invites you in this video to explore the fascinating de Sitter space — a theoretical proposal that could today hold the key to understanding dark energy and the evolution of the universe.

Miguel talks about the cosmological constant and how string theory has been trying — so far without complete success — to explain why the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. What if the cosmological constant weren’t actually constant? What if dark energy were dynamic, meaning it evolves over time? Moreover, there are experimental results that might give us clues about this…

Link to the full video.

Video by: Miguel Montero
Production: Laura Marcos and Ángel Uranga

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CC: Ángel Uranga