Dark Energy is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem

PSI Blog 20210215 Dark Energy is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem

 

Here is nice article highlighting one of the greatest contradictions faced by cosmogonists. this is a paragraph from Nature summarizing the problem:

 

“A cosmological conundrum

 

Theoretical physicists are devising new solutions to a decades-long cosmic mismatch. Vacuum energy, caused by ‘virtual’ particles popping in and out of empty space, is thought to be behind the Universe’s ever-faster expansion. But quantum theory suggests a vacuum energy so massive that galaxies would never have formed. Theory’s inability to explain the vacuum energy’s oddly small measured value is known as the ‘cosmological constant problem’. Some theorists think this is a non-issue. Others are tweaking the fundamental theories and hypothesizing new ones (such as that space-time is made of foam). “It's generally regarded as one of the most awkward, embarrassing, difficult problems in theoretical physics today,” says physicist Antonio Padilla.”

 

Of course, readers know that energy, much less dark energy, does not exist—energy is a calculation. All energy calculations must involve matter and its motion (e.g., E=mc²). Without matter, there can be no energy calculation. Previously, this contradiction has not bothered cosmogonists who have assumed “dark energy” caused the Big Bang. Let me repeat a key element of the above quote: “Vacuum energy, caused by ‘virtual’ particles popping in and out of empty space, is thought to be behind the Universe’s ever-faster expansion.” This “popping in and out of empty space” is a clever, but nonetheless disingenuous attempt to juggle the “perfectly empty space” required by relativity[1] visa vie the matter required by physics otherwise not based on religious idealism. Also remember that the whole problem started when z values (cosmological redshifts[2]) of especially distant galaxies indicated that their assumed recessional velocities were greater than c. As Hubble suspected, and as Infinite Universe Theory assumes, distal z values are primarily measures of distance—energy loss as light waves travel through the aether due to the Tired Light Effect. They are not evidence that the universe is expanding. Here is the article referred to by Nature. Read it and weep:

 

The Cosmological Constant Is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem

 

 

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[1] Borchardt, Glenn, 2020, Religious Roots of Relativity: Berkeley, California, Progressive Science Institute, 160 p. [ https://go.glennborchardt.com/RRR-ebk ]

[2] Note, z values include doppler effects, which must be subtracted or added to get the “cosmological” redshift due to the Tired Light Effect. Also, the claim by some cosmogonists that “perfectly empty space” or “space-time” itself is expanding is an embarrassing non sequitur.