{"id":210892,"date":"2025-04-08T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/researcher-proposes-first-time-model-that-replaces-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-in-explaining-nature-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:13:42","slug":"researcher-proposes-first-time-model-that-replaces-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-in-explaining-nature-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/researcher-proposes-first-time-model-that-replaces-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-in-explaining-nature-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Researcher proposes first-time model that replaces dark energy and dark matter in explaining nature of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researcher-proposes-first-time-model-that-replaces-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-in-explaining-nature-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1361-6382\/adbed1\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> in the journal <i>Classical and Quantum Gravity<\/i> that proposes a universe built on steps of multiple singularities rather than the Big Bang alone to account for the expansion of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>The new model forgoes the need for either <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a> or dark energy as explanations for the universe\u2019s acceleration and how structures like galaxies are generated.<\/p>\n<p>The researcher\u2019s work builds on an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-06-gravity-mass-mitigating-hypothetical-dark.html\">earlier model<\/a> hypothesizing that gravity can exist without mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a paper in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity that proposes a universe built on steps of multiple singularities rather than the Big Bang alone to account for the expansion of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210892","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}