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Old February 8th 09, 10:35 AM posted to sci.astro.research
Eric Flesch
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Default "Dark Energy" model of accelerated universe expansion gains support

The subject header is unfounded. The void bubble scenario is just a
mathematician's sandbox, saying "how can we account for observations
by manipulating a physical model, however unlikely". One person
builds a sand castle, the next person kicks it down. This sort of
mathematics-based activity is inevitable considering that dark energy
itself is exactly such a sandbox model, modelling that the universe
itself does unintuitive physical things to satisfy the current state
of observations.

Challenges to dark energy will come from outside the sandbox, where
processes other than dynamical expansion are entertained. We're just
in the flat-Earth stage of cosmology right now, I posit.

Eric


On 03 Feb 09, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
The support is mostly of the "eliminating alternatives
one by one" sort, but it's still of interest.

Abstract: ...
Our results present a serious
challenge to void models of acceleration.