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Eliminating this substance is the goal of the DGP braneworld model. So-called “phantom” forms of this substance are an extreme case of hypothetical quintessence models. An equation of state of pressure equal to negative density characterizes this substance, whose density remains constant as space expands. An era dominated by this substance began roughly 4 billion years ago, when the expansion of the universe began to accelerate. This substance is represented by a quantity that Einstein called his “biggest blunder” when adding it to his field equations, known as the cosmological constant. For 10 points, name this mysterious substance that accounts for over 70 percent of the universe, along with matter and dark matter. ■END■
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| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 67% | 88.11 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 86% | 103.60 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 57% | 0% | 86% | 94.00 |
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| Eames Weeks | Brown B | BC A | 24 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 26 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Alberta | 30 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 33 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McGill A | 37 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | Pitt C | 37 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia A | 37 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri B | 41 | 10 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 44 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Pitt A | 44 | -5 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | Virginia B | 44 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 44 | -5 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 44 | 10 |
| Derek Kuldinow | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 47 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | Penn B | 47 | -5 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Yale A | 54 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster A | 56 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | OSU C | 56 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Washington A | 56 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 56 | -5 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 56 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 56 | -5 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 57 | -5 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 58 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | George Mason A | 59 | -5 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | William Woods | 59 | -5 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | UF D | 61 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto G | 62 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | NYU A | 62 | -5 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | USC | 63 | -5 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | MSU A | 63 | -5 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Cornell-UG | 63 | -5 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Berkeley F | 65 | -5 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA B | 65 | -5 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Toronto K | 65 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 65 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Carleton | 65 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis Clemenceau | 65 | -5 |
| Richard Lin | Washington B | British Columbia C | 65 | 10 |
| Yishak Kelkay | ERAU A | Melbourne B | 66 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | UCLA D | 67 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto H | 67 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Washington A | 67 | -5 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | RIT B | 67 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Arizona State B | 68 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 69 | -5 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU D | 69 | -5 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Guelph A | 72 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Guelph B | 74 | -5 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | Liberty A | 74 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF C | 75 | -5 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Tennessee B | 75 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 77 | -5 |
| Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 77 | -5 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McMaster C | 78 | -5 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto I | 78 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF A | 78 | -5 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 78 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | George Washington B | 78 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 78 | -5 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brown C | 78 | -5 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 78 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Rose State | 78 | -5 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 79 | -5 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | OSU A | 79 | -5 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Rochester | 79 | -5 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Georgetown A | 80 | -5 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester A | Minnesota B | 80 | -5 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 80 | -5 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Rowan A | 81 | -5 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Amherst A | 81 | -5 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | WashU C | 82 | -5 |
| Ben Stras | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 84 | -5 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Williams | 84 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | ERAU B | 85 | -5 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | Liberty C | 85 | -5 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Columbia B | 85 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Texas B | 85 | -5 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Iowa | 89 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | CWRU D | 90 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 90 | -5 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Lloyd George | 90 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Roanoke | 93 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto C | 97 | -5 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto Metropolitan | 97 | -5 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | North Carolina C | 97 | -5 |
| Raifton Bartling | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 97 | -5 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 97 | -5 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT A | Cornell-DII | 97 | 10 |
| Brigham Blundell | ESF | Syracuse | 97 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF B | 99 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | James Madison | 99 | -5 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | BC B | 100 | -5 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | FIU | 102 | -5 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Nebraska | 102 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Queen's B | 103 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Waterloo | 103 | -5 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 103 | -5 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Notre Dame E | 103 | -5 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 103 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 106 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | OSU B | 106 | 0 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina B | North Carolina A | 106 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | VCU A | 106 | -5 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 106 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | MIT B | 107 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's A | 108 | 0 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | USF | 110 | 0 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester A | 112 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | UCSC | 113 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA A | 113 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA C | 113 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 113 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McMaster B | 113 | 10 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Toronto B | 113 | 0 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 113 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Toronto J | 113 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Ottawa | 113 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 113 | 10 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | FSU | 113 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UCF A | 113 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF E | 113 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | UCF B | 113 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU A | 113 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | OSU D | 113 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | CWRU C | 113 | 0 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Pitt B | 113 | 0 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | CWRU B | 113 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Clemson B | 113 | 0 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | Tusculum | 113 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | Liberty B | 113 | 10 |
| Alexandra Knight | Liberty A | Virginia A | 113 | 0 |
| Nghia Khau | VCU A | Maryland A | 113 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | Catholic University | 113 | 0 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 113 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Maryland D | 113 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 113 | 0 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 113 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Maryland C | 113 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | Penn A | 113 | 0 |
| Aryan Malhotra | Rutgers C | Columbia A | 113 | 10 |
| Julian Thomson Harris | Vassar A | Swarthmore A | 113 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers B | 113 | 0 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | Missouri A | 113 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 113 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | SIUE | 113 | 0 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Minnesota A | 113 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 113 | 10 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | MIT A | 113 | 10 |
| Ben Romano | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 113 | 0 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 113 | 0 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brandeis Wilson | 113 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 113 | 10 |
| Connor Farquhar | Amherst A | Dartmouth | 113 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Yale B | 113 | 0 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia B | 113 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia D | 113 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | Simon Fraser | 113 | 10 |
| Luke Simon | Alberta B | Arizona State A | 113 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | UCO | 113 | 0 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Ohio | 113 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Northwestern A | 113 | 0 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Northwestern C | 113 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton A | 113 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | ESF | 113 | 0 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 113 | 10 |