{"id":157848,"date":"2023-02-12T20:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/dark-energy-bubbles-could-explain-why-the-universe-is-expanding-so-fast"},"modified":"2023-02-12T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:22:35","slug":"dark-energy-bubbles-could-explain-why-the-universe-is-expanding-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/dark-energy-bubbles-could-explain-why-the-universe-is-expanding-so-fast","title":{"rendered":"Dark Energy Bubbles Could Explain Why The Universe Is Expanding So Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-energy-bubbles-could-explain-why-the-universe-is-expanding-so-fast2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a hot new early dark energy summer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We\u2019re still not sure exactly what dark energy is, but it may have played a key role in the early universe.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists can\u2019t see or measure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/dark-matter-energy-explained\">dark energy<\/a> (hence the name). The only clue that it exists is how it affects the rest of the universe; dark energy is the force that\u2019s driving the universe to keep expanding faster. Physicists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp3-origins.dk\/people\/niedermann-florian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Florian Niedermann<\/a> of Stockholm University and <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmology.unige.ch\/users\/martin-sloth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Martin Sloth<\/a> of the University of Southern Denmark propose that if dark energy formed bubbles in the dark plasma of the early universe, it could solve one of the biggest mysteries in modern physics.<\/p>\n<p>They describe their idea in a recent paper <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.physletb.2022.137555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">in the journal <em>Physics Letters B<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a hot new early dark energy summer. We\u2019re still not sure exactly what dark energy is, but it may have played a key role in the early universe. Physicists can\u2019t see or measure dark energy (hence the name). The only clue that it exists is how it affects the rest of the universe; dark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}