Dark energy may not exist in space, scientists claim

Telegraph ^ | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 | Heidi Blake

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• Scientists Confirm Universe is Expanding at Increasing Rate
• "Dark energy" might not exist, scientists say
• The Many Directions of Time
• Mankind 'shortening the universe's life' -- New Scientist reports a worrying new variant as the cosmologists claim that astronomers may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its death by observing dark energy, a mysterious anti gravity force which is thought to be speeding up the expansion of the cosmos.
• Does Dark Energy Really Exist?: Or does Earth occupy a very unusual place in the universe? (LOL!)
• Lights Out for Dark Matter Claim?
• New Theory Nixes "Dark Energy": Says Time is Disappearing from the Universe

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[Psycho_Bunny]

Interesting, if true. A ton of science posters in schools all over would have to be trashed.

[OldDeckHand]

I wonder what this will do with respect to estimates of the age of the universe.

[MarineBrat]

It’s good to see people get a clue that they might not have a clue. :)

[KoRn]

I wonder how much of the universe(even our own planet for that matter) we REALLY know, versus what we *THINK* we know, but really haven’t a clue about.

[decimon]

Cosmic, man!

But this doesn’t indicate if there would still be unaccountable matter.

[SunkenCiv]

The only way that can be seen is if one is zooming through space via the improbability drive.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) /bingo

[SunkenCiv]

Oooooh, I think you’re onto something there...

[SunkenCiv]

Those usually need to be trashed by the time they’re printed. :’)

[babygene]

“I wonder how much of the universe(even our own planet for that matter) we REALLY know, versus what we *THINK* we know, but really haven’t a clue about.”

My thoughts on this for as long as I can remember have been that if you (anyone) walks into their back yard and looks around, there is virtually nothing there that we have anything other than a superficial understanding of. Once you start peeling back the onion on anything you see - you really know next to nothing...

Yet we attempt to enplane the universe.

[onedoug]

Wait a week. It’ll be back.

[bunkerhill7]

Dark energy may not exist in space, scientists claim, but definitely exists in Hell and in the space between Obummer`s ears.

[bunkerhill7]

Dark energy may not exist in space, scientists claim, but definitely exists in Hell and in the space between Obummer`s ears.

[James C. Bennett]

I wonder what this will do with respect to estimates of the age of the universe.

You mean, such as being able to prove that the Earth is less than 6000 years old?

[yield 2 the right]

Only GOD knows! One of the many reasons to get right with HIM. The afterlife is wondrous if chosen correctly.

[OldDeckHand]

"You mean, such as being able to prove that the Earth is less than 6000 years old? "

No. Actually, I meant that if the universe isn't expanding as quickly as previously thought, perhaps the universe is MUCH older than the math currently indicates it is.

I'm not a mathematician, but you'd think that the "rate of expansion" would be a pretty important and significant variable.

[Born to Conserve]

“...the improbability drive.”

“...infinite improbability drive.”

[James C. Bennett]

Very true. The whole expansion of the universe into a void which is somehow “not” the universe, is a concept that’s hard for me to assimilate.