A cosmology with the growing cosmological constant (CC) energy density is considered. The requirement of general covariance implies the time dependence of the gravitational constant G. Irrespectively of the exact functional form of the growth of the CC energy density, the universe ends in a de Sitter regime with a constant asymptotic Λ, but vanishing G. Although there is no divergence of the sc...

In this paper we derive a bound on the rate of change of the gravitational constant G coming from the pulsating white dwarf G117-B15A. This star is a ZZ Ceti pulsator extensively studied with astroseismological techniques for last three decades. The most recent determination of Ṗ = (2.3 ± 1.4) × 10 ss for the 215.2 s fundamental mode agrees very well with predictions of the best fit theoretical...