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Dark Energy - Einstein's Mistake?

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  • 28-06-2007 11:07pm
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    Kevster
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    Yo,

    I was reading about Dark Energy and am greatly puzzled by it. Unlike Dark Matter - whose existence we can infer - Dark Energy has never been detected directly or indirectly. It was 'created' as the by-product of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (i.e. the Cosmological Constant).

    I'm an amateur cosmologist but what are the chances that Dark Energy doesn't exist at all and, in fact, it really is just a product of an error in Relativity. I mean, maybe the Maths is wrong.


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    Fallen Seraph
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    I could well be wrong in this, but I thought that it had been detected insofar as we observe the universe accelerating? And we attribute this acceleration to dark energy. I believe dark energy was proposed independantly of the cosmological constant; it just turned out to be basically the same thing.


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