Mathematicians challenge dark energy model, suggesting cosmic acceleration may arise naturally from Einstein's equations
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Summary
A team of mathematicians challenges the long-standing dark energy model, arguing that the model it was designed to rescue was never mathematically stable. They propose that cosmic acceleration may emerge naturally from Einstein's equations, potentially eliminating the need for dark energy—a concept that has been treated as settled science for nearly 30 years and is thought to make up 70% of the universe.
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· 4 pulledDark energy has one job: explain why the universe is flying apart faster and faster.
The idea is so successful that it appears in every cosmology textbook and is thought to make up roughly 70 percent of the cosmos.
A team of mathematicians now says the model dark energy was invented to rescue was never stable to begin with.
The model sits in a mathematically unstable state.
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