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[coldcreation]

Hello UncleAl,

I beleive you are refering to the new cosmological constant. Einstein's had nothing to do with the repulsive acceleratory negative energy stress tensor based on the 1998 SN observations.

Atomic nuclei, atoms, molecules, planetary orbits, galaxies, and clusters are observed to be very stable systems. And we have no reason to disbelieve the likelihood that the universe in its entirety is stable, and dependent on the same natural ubiquitous mechanism responsible for mediating stability on all scales: It has a name: Lambda, the cosmological constant. This is no parameter. Einstein, De Sitter and Eddington especially were very close to finding its mechanism.

Cold Creation theory is built on several themes: (1) The universe may not be expanding. (2) There was no beginning to the universe, or big bang event. (3) Matter was created otherwise than in a fierce initial episode. (4) Cosmic evolution is very different than previously thought. (5) Human consciousness, creativity and imagination are inextricably attached to the laws of nature, and can be rationalized in logical and consistent physical terms.

There's more...

But first, what's your gig UncleAl?
Don't tell me you agree with the hot big bang cold dark matter and profuse kooky energy theory, do you?

In your mail you write: "The proposed cosmological constant has nothing at all to do with local gravitation or anything smaller. In its most extreme extrapolated case re dark energy, that will remain true for billions of years to come."

It would be a curious 'substance,' indeed, a dark form of energy that did not affect things on all scales. Why can't Einstein's term be ubiquitous, everywhere present, an intrinsic feature of spacetime, and ultimately, inseperable from the gravitational interaction?

It can be demonstrated, and it certainly will be, that you suggest is way off the mark. So too is modern cosmology's interpretation of lambda.

One final note. Without a proper understanding of Einstein's enfant terrible an ultimate theory is unattainable. Furthermore, and last but not least, Lagrangian points are well known. However, there importance is perhaps less so. It can be shown how the field interaction between bodies induces stability, and how, precisely, the cosmological constant is involved in the shaping of complex gravitating systems.

coldcreation



later.