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Does Dark Energy Really Exist? Cosmologists Battle It Out

Does Dark Energy Really Exist? Cosmologists Battle It Out

Does Dark Energy Really Exist? Cosmologists Battle It Out

Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer

January 9, 20209m 19s

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Show Notes

Dark energy, mysterious as it sounds, has become part of the furniture in cosmology. The evidence that this repulsive energy infuses space has stacked up since 1998. That was the year astronomers first discovered that the expansion of the universe has been speeding up over time, with dark energy acting as the accelerator. As space expands, new space arises, and with it more of this repulsive energy, causing space to expand even faster.

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