{"id":174093,"date":"2023-10-13T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/mystery-effect-speeds-up-the-universe-not-dark-energy-says-study-2"},"modified":"2023-10-13T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:22:25","slug":"mystery-effect-speeds-up-the-universe-not-dark-energy-says-study-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/mystery-effect-speeds-up-the-universe-not-dark-energy-says-study-2","title":{"rendered":"Mystery effect speeds up the universe \u2014 not dark energy, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-effect-speeds-up-the-universe-not-dark-energy-says-study4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark energy, one of the most controversial physics ideas, is getting another challenge. After all, if this force is supposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/astrophysics\/focus-areas\/what-is-dark-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make up about<\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/astrophysics\/focus-areas\/what-is-dark-energy\">68%<\/a> <\/strong>of the mass-energy of the universe, where exactly is it? A new paper by a pair of Russian astrophysicists says dark energy simply doesn\u2019t exist. Instead, they point to the mysterious<strong> Casimir effect<\/strong> as the explanation for the accelerating expansion of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The study, from Professor <strong>Artyom Astashenok<\/strong> and undergraduate student <strong>Alexander Teplyakov<\/strong> of the <em>Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University<\/em>, takes issue with the fact that as far as dark energy\u2019s suggested role, \u201cno one knows what is it and how it works,\u201d as remarks Astashenok in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark energy, one of the most controversial physics ideas, is getting another challenge. After all, if this force is supposed to make up about 68% of the mass-energy of the universe, where exactly is it? A new paper by a pair of Russian astrophysicists says dark energy simply doesn\u2019t exist. Instead, they point to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174093","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}