The same can't be
said about dark energy, a truly astonishing discovery made by astronomers a decade ago while observing distant exploding stars.
Not exact matches
Discovering more
about dark energy will «hopefully lead to a revolution in gravity and quantum mechanics,» Butterworth
said.
An atheist in this discipline would look at a probability of 10 to the power of 97 in the fine tuning of
dark energy influence over expansion of the universe and understand to different degree what that
says about the first cause or singularity.
«This is another clue,» Riess
says, «and we know so little
about dark energy that anything we can find out is important.»
[He's] absolutely right, of course, and we may be lucky, and I hope we are lucky; what Alan
said is, I want to emphasize something
about the negative features of what Alan
said, [which] is that if the vacuum
energy is
dark energy, we won't be able to prove it is
dark energy.
«The fact that we're learning something
about dark energy because of this measurement is incredibly exciting,» he
says.
I should maybe add, I don't think Lawrence really
said it, the most peculiar thing
about this
dark energy, is really the fact that there is so little of it.
«By the end of the survey, we're going to have thousands of different supernovae we can look at, to learn more
about dark energy,» she
says.
«One of the important things we need to learn
about dark energy is what influence it has had on structure,» Carlstrom
says.