Is Dark Energy Actually the "Mega-Quantum?"

During a perfect moment of peace at Sun, 01 Feb 2004 11:06:21 GMT,
"Luigi Caselli" interrupted with:

"Dave Barlow" ha scritto nel messaggio
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If anything, it severely contradicts the models. Since Perlmutter
announced the result theoreticians have been trying to fit it into
cosmology with a shoe horn.

With this approach, any unexpected observation can fit in the models
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In case you missed the obvious, I am not saying that Dark Energy
supports the Big Bang. Rather, it poses a major problem. For me, that
is a big admission.

The phrase 'shoe horn' implies they are inelegantly smashing the data
into the models.

It's also worth noting that Dark Matter was deduced before standard
models of the BB where even experimentally verified.

I think it's a bit difficult that someone has "experimentally" verified a
cosmological theory... You need a too much big laboratory...

The model made a specific prediction and this was later observed. No
other model made that prediction. If the observed CMBR was 10 K hotter
it would not have verified the models.

This seems to be a problem people have with cosmology. That we can
make theoretical models on paper that actually describe how the
Universe works. Albeit crudely at present.
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