Electricity is drawn towards potential and the universe as a whole behaves the same way. Electricity comes into our homes because the neutral circuit provides the potential. It's drawn towards grounding rods for the same reason. If something accelerates at a constant rate it will get faster and faster. If a spaceship travels at a constant 1g acceleration rate it would achieve about 95% light speed in 1 year. Physicists in the last century did not postulate dark energy because they understood that the expansion is a fundamental property of the universe. The fact that the expansion is accelerating does not invalidate their reasoning, it's what the known laws of physics would predict provided gravitational forces are not strong enough to counteract the process. All studies to find dark energy have been fruitless because it doesn't exist. To say there is dark energy is to say there are 5 fundamental forces, there are 4.
Interesting point of view! However, are you sure we can dismiss dark energy just because we haven’t detected it yet? The history of science shows that many phenomena were theoretical hypotheses at first before they were confirmed.
@PhenomenonFrontier The expansion was discovered in 1929. All the great physicists from the last century did not postulate dark energy for the reasons I stated. It's not a matter of opinion, it doesn't exist. The concept of dark energy became mainstream after 1998 when it was discovered that the expansion is accelerating. Again, this is what the known laws of physics would predict provided gravitational forces are not strong enough to counteract the process.
Thank you for your comment! Dark energy is a hypothesis that effectively explains current observations, such as the accelerating expansion of the universe, but science is constantly evolving, and new explanations may emerge in the future. Best regards!
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Electricity is drawn towards potential and the universe as a whole behaves the same way. Electricity comes into our homes because the neutral circuit provides the potential. It's drawn towards grounding rods for the same reason.
If something accelerates at a constant rate it will get faster and faster. If a spaceship travels at a constant 1g acceleration rate it would achieve about 95% light speed in 1 year.
Physicists in the last century did not postulate dark energy because they understood that the expansion is a fundamental property of the universe. The fact that the expansion is accelerating does not invalidate their reasoning, it's what the known laws of physics would predict provided gravitational forces are not strong enough to counteract the process.
All studies to find dark energy have been fruitless because it doesn't exist. To say there is dark energy is to say there are 5 fundamental forces, there are 4.
Interesting point of view! However, are you sure we can dismiss dark energy just because we haven’t detected it yet? The history of science shows that many phenomena were theoretical hypotheses at first before they were confirmed.
@PhenomenonFrontier The expansion was discovered in 1929. All the great physicists from the last century did not postulate dark energy for the reasons I stated. It's not a matter of opinion, it doesn't exist.
The concept of dark energy became mainstream after 1998 when it was discovered that the expansion is accelerating. Again, this is what the known laws of physics would predict provided gravitational forces are not strong enough to counteract the process.
Thank you for your comment! Dark energy is a hypothesis that effectively explains current observations, such as the accelerating expansion of the universe, but science is constantly evolving, and new explanations may emerge in the future. Best regards!