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Quantum theory has the largest error between theory and prediction (120 orders of magnitude). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem



That’s just a back-of-the-envelope calculation. Nobody knows how to do a bone-fide calculation because we don’t have an accepted quantum theory of gravity.


I guess that's why they invented slide rules. I could get within 3 significant digits on a slide rule (and compute the exponent in my head), whereas I guess the margin of this envelope is too small to contain the calculation.




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