Questions tagged [dark-energy]
Dark energy is the unknown form of energy that drives the acceleration of the universe's expansion.
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Could dark energy be the effect of gravity at great distances?
This may be a silly question, but is it possible that dark energy and gravity are related to each other?
Space-time is deformed everywhere in space by objects with mass. The more massive the object, ...
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What is Dark Energy, and how was it discovered?
I've heard a lot about Dark Energy, and how it's supposed to be one of the most powerful forces in the universe. What is it, and how was it discovered?
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Lawrence Krauss' Theory of Origin
I don't understand how a vacuum, the absence of matter, can hold energy. How can it hold energy when Einstein proved that matter is energy?
And a second related question; how does the energy in a ...
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What is meant by positive and negative gravity/energy/spacetime-curvature?
I have recently come across some cosmological assertions (based on empirical data) about the universe being self contained in the sense that it is entirely capable of coming into existence from a zero-...
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Are modified theories of gravity credible?
I'm a statistician with a little training in physics and would just like to know the general consensus on a few things.
I'm reading a book by John Moffat which basically tries to state how GR makes ...
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Dark matter and dark energy references
I've been looking for questions about dark matter, and I've read some very interesting answers. However, I desire too look into it deeply.
This is not actually a question. I'm asking the community ...
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asymptotic curvature of the universe and correlation with local curvature
There is not-so-rough evidence that at very large scale the universe is flat. However we
see everywhere that there are local lumps of matter with positive curvature. So i have several questions ...
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What experiments, other than Hubble Expansion, support the Dark Energy theory?
Dark energy is introduced as a constant inside Einstein's equations. Its primary purpose, from what I understand, is to make Einstein's equations compatible with the accelerating expansion of the ...
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Dark energy converted to electricity [duplicate]
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Dark Energy saving the world
In theory, dark energy be used to generate electricity. Given its apparent abundance, this could provide rather a lot (perhaps too much) clean ...
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What current alternatives are there to the standard concordance model of cosmology?
The current "standard model" or concordance model of cosmology is Lambda CDM which includes late time acceleration due to a cosmological constant, cold dark matter as the missing matter component and ...
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