{"id":193856,"date":"2024-08-01T10:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/a-higher-dimensional-model-can-help-explain-cosmic-acceleration-without-dark-energy"},"modified":"2024-08-01T10:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:22:49","slug":"a-higher-dimensional-model-can-help-explain-cosmic-acceleration-without-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/a-higher-dimensional-model-can-help-explain-cosmic-acceleration-without-dark-energy","title":{"rendered":"A higher-dimensional model can help explain cosmic acceleration without dark energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-higher-dimensional-model-can-help-explain-cosmic-acceleration-without-dark-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark energy remains among the greatest puzzles in our understanding of the cosmos. In the standard model of cosmology called the Lambda-CDM, it is accounted for by adding a cosmological constant term in Einstein\u2019s field equation first introduced by Einstein himself. This constant is very small and positive and lacks a complete theoretical understanding of why it has such a tiny value. Moreover, dark energy has some peculiar features, such as negative pressure and does not dilute with cosmic expansion, which makes at least some of us uncomfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark energy remains among the greatest puzzles in our understanding of the cosmos. In the standard model of cosmology called the Lambda-CDM, it is accounted for by adding a cosmological constant term in Einstein\u2019s field equation first introduced by Einstein himself. This constant is very small and positive and lacks a complete theoretical understanding of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193856","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}