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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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