Screaming Penguin

Since I am back to blogging, somewhat, I just want to note what Pam Gay from Astronomy Cast explained to me. So, there are two big lies in common science literature about The Big Bang (or inflation) and Dark Energy. I always knew they were bullshit, but I never knew what the real problem was. Pam cleared me up. So space expands. Things are moving apart, but not in an "explosive" way There is more space between everything. The cliche analogy is dots on the surface of a balloon. It isn't that the dots are moving away from each other, it is that there is more balloon between the dots. Space has a multiple "growth" half-life. Everything, in every direction is accelerating away from us relative to its distance from us, because each bit of space might become space * X / space at any time. There isn't a center of the universe. Everywhere is the "center" This, obviously, is a property of space. The big lie that the mainstream science media relays is that there is "Dark Energy" that is pushing everything away from itself. This isn't the case. This implies "explosive" "work" being done to push the galaxies apart "through" space, not that there is simply more space there. I never understood where this "Dark Energy" crap came from. This is the story: In every cubic meter of space, there is about 3 protons worth of energy (4.50983192 × 10-10 joules). Sometimes it is particles, sometimes energy, but it is always there. Space expands, but vacuum energy, this flux of Brian Greene's turbulent (femto) universe is there. That is the mystery. Conservation of energy is out the window. Sometimes it is energy, sometimes matter, but that is quantum flux. Why is there constantly more and more of it as space grows. That is the Dark Energy question.