The concept of dark energy was created by cosmologists to fit Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity into reality Photo: APFrom The Telegraph:
I firmly believe that it should be possible to explain every scientific theory, experiment or concept in simple language that can be understood by a layperson.
However some subjects are so complicated they appear to defy simplification.
Dark energy, which made the news this week, is one such subject. Even the Oxford Dictionary of Science admitted that its nature is not known.
Has anyone come across a simple explanation?
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I have a very simple explanation for solving the dark energy problem which which Harvard's C. Stubbs claims has puts us “in the midst of a profound crisis in fundamental physics.”
The trouble with my explanation is it requires scientists to abandon the ancient and absurd idea that mass mediates the gravitational force. (What property of mass causes this to happen?)
I have performed experiments for more than 15 years which show that radiation is gravitationally attractive. While there are experiments that show mass is attractive, with my experiments using radiation I can get a much stronger force. With a 210 gm test mass heated to 400 degrees Celsius, I can get a 22% increase in weight or a 46 gm increase in gravitational mass.
If "radiation is gravitationally attractive" , it is quite easy to solve the dark energy problem. This is because dimming of the universe (or decline in cosmic star-formation rate) started to decline at ~z=1 and cosmic acceleration followed soon after at ~z=0.6. The near coincidence of these two global events suggest the first caused the second.
With the galaxies starting to give off less radiation at z=1 and with radiation being attractive as my experiments show, the galaxies would become less gravitationally bound to each other and then they would fly apart all the more faster than they had been. See http://vixra.org/abs/0907.0018 for my paper and experiments.
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