{"id":214100,"date":"2025-05-15T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ask-ethan-could-dark-energy-be-more-negative-than-a-cosmological-constant"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:05:16","slug":"ask-ethan-could-dark-energy-be-more-negative-than-a-cosmological-constant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ask-ethan-could-dark-energy-be-more-negative-than-a-cosmological-constant","title":{"rendered":"Ask Ethan: Could dark energy be more negative than a cosmological constant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ask-ethan-could-dark-energy-be-more-negative-than-a-cosmological-constant2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fact that our Universe\u2019s expansion is accelerating implies that dark energy exists. But could it be even weirder than we\u2019ve imagined?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that our Universe\u2019s expansion is accelerating implies that dark energy exists. But could it be even weirder than we\u2019ve imagined?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214100","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\/214100","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=214100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}