{"id":215578,"date":"2025-06-07T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-idea-explains-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-maybe"},"modified":"2025-06-07T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:07:27","slug":"new-idea-explains-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-idea-explains-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-maybe","title":{"rendered":"New idea explains dark energy AND dark matter (maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-idea-explains-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-maybe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a714qW6GPOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Special Offer! Use our link <a href=\"https:\/\/joinnautilus.com\/SABINE\">https:\/\/joinnautilus.com\/SABINE<\/a> to get 15% off your membership!<\/p>\n<p>Dark energy and dark matter are two placeholders for mysterious forces and substances that expand our universe and make up the majority of its matter, respectively. In a new theory, one physicist says that defects in spacetime explain both of these mysteries at the same time. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n<p>This video comes with a quiz which you can take here: <a href=\"https:\/\/quizwithit.com\/start_thequiz\/1748971420417x503138930832703500\">https:\/\/quizwithit.com\/start_thequiz\/1748971420417x503138930832703500<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Correction: I mixed up the gems, sorry. 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