{"id":237940,"date":"2026-05-29T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/taking-dark-energy-out-of-the-equation-mathematicians-challenge-the-standard-cosmological-model-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:34:08","slug":"taking-dark-energy-out-of-the-equation-mathematicians-challenge-the-standard-cosmological-model-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/taking-dark-energy-out-of-the-equation-mathematicians-challenge-the-standard-cosmological-model-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Taking dark energy out of the equation: Mathematicians challenge the standard cosmological model of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taking-dark-energy-out-of-the-equation-mathematicians-challenge-the-standard-cosmological-model-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/rspa\/article\/482\/2338\/20250912\/481920\/The-instability-of-critical-and-underdense\" target=\"_blank\">new paper published<\/a> in <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society A<\/i>, mathematicians from the University of California, Davis, provide mathematical proof that instabilities inherent in the Einstein-Euler equations imply that the current model of the expanding universe is not viable.<\/p>\n<p>The Einstein-Euler equations are a union of general relativity and fluid dynamics equations used to model astronomical phenomena such as galaxies, black holes, and cosmic expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The research directly challenges the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-01-scientists-mysterious-suppression-cosmic-growth.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Lambda-cold dark matter model<\/a>, the standard cosmological model of the Big Bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, mathematicians from the University of California, Davis, provide mathematical proof that instabilities inherent in the Einstein-Euler equations imply that the current model of the expanding universe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237940","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}