So when Stephen Shenker , a Stanford University theorist who was moderating a panel discussion here on the future of the putative theory of everything , asked for a show of hands on the fate of a strange number known as the cosmological constant , some 400 physicists and mathematicians were happy to swallow their doubts and vote .
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