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[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 6 months ago

Dark energy is a bit of a meme, have the inconsistencies with jws and hubble been resolved yet?

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 6 months ago

I take issue with discovery. To say there’s a mysterious inexplicable expansion of the universe hardly qualifies as such. It sounds more like a failure to understand our physical laws than to posit the presence of mysterious and otherwise undetectable entity.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

The use of the word "discovery" in this case was carefully considered. The discovery of "dark energy" refers to the effect: the unexpected acceleration of the expansion of space. The fact that the expansion is accelerating was a discovery, and dark energy is just the name given to "whatever causes that".

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