His argument is that there can be no "understanding" of the cosmological constant. It's just a number that the universe gave us, and there's no deeper physics (called "new physics") that could explain its value. My post was a counterexample of such a constant
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Perhaps you have an outré meaning for how one looks for new physics.
new physics /could/ be found in precision measurements of Λ.. but my claim all along was and is that understanding constants is far from a vacuous pursuit.
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Physics can, sometimes, be driven by an interesting relationship between constants, from coupling running, from discovery of unexpected fixed points, etc. But none of these obtain for Lambda.
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I would suggest that the degree to which Lambda defies conventional understanding is precisely what makes it so interesting. Another example is the flavor problem.
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don’t retrodict me bro
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