Sentences with phrase «energy accelerates the universe»

Since dark energy works against gravity, more dark energy accelerates the universe's expansion and retards the formation of large - scale structure.

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Meanwhile, dark energy explains our observation that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.

[2] In 2011, a five - year survey of 200,000 galaxies and spanning 7 billion years of cosmic time confirmed that «dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds.»

[5][6] The theory could potentially explain why a mysterious repulsive form of energy known as the «cosmological constant», and which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, is several orders of magnitude smaller than predicted by the standard Big Bang model.»

You said, «The universe is actually expanding at an accelerating rate, pushed by dark energy and dark matter (which was described in the Bible in the book of Job).»

The universe is actually expanding at an accelerating rate, pushed by dark energy and dark matter (which was described in the Bible in the book of Job).

It is believed that vacuum fluctuations may have a connection with «dark energy» which drives the accelerated expansion of the universe.

LinCA Ok, I am not a physicist or mathematician so I really do not know how they established the odds of fine tuning of Dark Energy (exact amount of force that produced a rapid enough expansion at the point of singularity to avoid gravitational collapse of our universe yet accelerate the expansion again resulting in our universe) to be 10 to the power of 97!

Peering across the cosmos, Hubble mapped dark matter and helped discover dark energy, the mysterious force driving our universe's accelerating expansion.

Measuring this can help constrain models of dark energy, the mysterious force that seems to be driving the universe's present - day accelerating expansion.

And perhaps a new theory of gravity would be a better explanation for the accelerated expansion of the universe that has inspired a belief in dark energy.

That could slam the door on answering mysteries such as why gravity is so weak, or how mysterious dark energy is apparently accelerating our universe's expansion.

Before we discovered that the universe's expansion was accelerating, predicting our cosmic fate seemed straightforward: Measure the slowing of the expansion, the average density of matter and energy, or the shape of the universe.

At that point, dark energy's power started to be felt and the universe started to accelerate again.

While it is rolling, the effect of its energy is high enough to make the universe accelerate.

It may even be that «dark energy,» the mysterious force that even now drives the universe to expand at an accelerating rate, is itself a scalar field.

If we accept the premise that dark energy exists, and that it causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate, this represents an enormous source of «free» energy.

When WFIRST launches, it will sport a 2.4 - meter mirror that promises panoramic views of the heavens and will use its wide eye to study dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion.

It does not explain the perplexing phenomenon of dark energy, which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, nor does it account for dark matter, the invisible material that outweighs visible galaxies five to one.

One possibility is that dark energy, already known to be accelerating the universe, may be shoving galaxies away from each other with even greater — or growing — strength.

Such extra dimensions might explain some conundrums in physics, such as the existence of dark matter (an as - yet - unidentified source of mass in the universe) and dark energy (which causes the universe's expansion rate to accelerate), says coauthor Daniel Holz, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago.

And the most recent physics Nobel, in 2011, went to a trio of researchers who played a leading role in the discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating, thanks to «dark energy.»

This dark energy, as it is known, exerts an antigravitational impulse that appears to be causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.

Observations of supernovae led to the discovery in 1998 of «dark energy» — the unknown force thought to be accelerating the expansion of the universe.

There's a new way to measure the accelerating expansion of the primordial universe — and it may just reveal what dark energy is

Dark energy, thought to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe, exerts negative pressure, which suggests it might have negative temperature — Schneider is currently discussing the idea with cosmologists.

Hajdukovic's theory could also explain dark energy, the baffling force thought to be driving the universe apart at an accelerated pace.

The loss of countless tiny drops of energy since the start of the universe might be behind the flood of dark energy accelerating the cosmos's expansion

We have long since abandoned Einstein's idea of a static, unchanging cosmos in favour of a universe that is not only constantly expanding, but whose expansion is continually accelerating, at the mercies of the mysterious agent called dark energy.

Observations of supernovae at different distances convinced us that the universe's expansion is accelerating, and that dark energy must exist.

Measuring their actual distances led to the discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate (SN: 8/6/16, p. 10), which physicists explain by invoking a mysterious substance called dark energy.

AN OPTICAL illusion has enabled the most precise measurement yet of the abundance of the mysterious dark energy, which is thought to be accelerating the universe's expansion.

Instead, it's created when the spinning pulsar accelerates particles to extremely high energies, causing them to smash into lower - energy photons left over from the early universe.

They discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, driven apart by an enigmatic, all - pervasive property of space now called dark energy.

«Will dark energy keep the universe accelerating faster and faster?»

If the space - time jitter is there, Hogan says it could underpin entirely new explanations for why the expansion of our universe is accelerating, something traditionally attributed to the little understood phenomenon of dark energy.

One of them accounts for so - called dark energy, which comprises about 70 per cent of the total energy of the universe and is responsible for its accelerated expansion.

Scientists believe that dark energy may be the key to understanding why the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

General relativity provided the underpinning of the Big Bang and introduced the concept of a cosmological constant, the model for the «dark energy» thought to be causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.

Finding these progenitors would be a boon to the study of dark energy, the mysterious entity thought to be accelerating the expansion of the universe.

This accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by invoking a mysterious substance called dark energy.

Three ingenious experiments are duking it out to solve the mystery of whether dark energy exists and how it might be accelerating the universe's growth

These «standard candles» were crucial to discovering dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of the universe.

An energy field lurking inactive since the big bang might now be causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.

DARK energy, the mysterious force thought to be responsible for the fact the universe's expansion is accelerating, might come from a series of exotic fields.

In the late 1990s this picture grew even more confusing, when scientists found evidence of another dark entity, called dark energy, that seems to be causing the universe to expand at an ever - accelerating rate.

More recently, Verlinde suggested an alternative called «emergent gravity,» in which gravity is a byproduct of quantum fluctuations and dark energy (another scarcely understood phenomenon, one that seems to be causing the universe's expansion to accelerate).

Dark energy, which helps to explain why the universe continues to expand at an accelerating rate, remains an enduring puzzle.

So 11 years ago, when astronomers suddenly realized that the universe was not merely expanding but accelerating in its expansion, most of them concluded that some otherwise undetectable antigravity force, a «dark energy,» was shoving apart galaxies.

We know from very precise supernova observations that the universe is accelerating, but at the same time we rely on coarse approximations to Einstein's equations which may introduce serious side - effects, such as the need for dark energy, in the models designed to fit the observational data.»