Are astronomers wrong about dark energy? New study casts . . . Are astronomers wrong about dark energy? New study casts doubt on universe’s accelerating expansionExtraordinary claims The new research proposes a radical revision of accepted knowledge, so
Are Astronomers Wrong About Dark Energy? - Slashdot An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: The universe's expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our understanding of dark energy, the elusive force that coun
Have We Been Wrong About Dark Energy All Along? New Study . . . The cosmic microwave background radiation, distant supernovae, and the large-scale structure of galaxies have all been studied under the assumption that dark energy exists If acceleration arises instead from geometry, those models may need to be reexamined Moreover, the discovery could reshape the way we think about the fate of the universe
Energy Conceptions Misconceptions Energy is a force Energy is associated only with movement Energy causes things to happen Energy is a fuel Energy is a product of an activity Energy is a substance or fluid In strict scientific views, all these statements are false Following are explanations of why these energy descriptions are “wrong”: Energy is found only in living
The Bottomless Well at 20: Is Energy on Earth Still . . . They’re wrong because what is often thought of as waste isn’t really waste There’s an economic decision attached to choosing lower thermodynamic efficiency, because what you’re choosing to do in using the more energy-wasteful machine is a trade for some other attribute in society, say your time, or your money
Whats Driving Dark Energy? - Universe Today We can debate whether LCDM is wrong or not, but we can’t debate that it’s incomplete That’s because, among other things, we have no idea what dark energy IS