{"id":57771,"date":"2017-05-30T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/dark-energy-may-lurk-in-the-nothingness-of-space"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:01:04","slug":"dark-energy-may-lurk-in-the-nothingness-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/dark-energy-may-lurk-in-the-nothingness-of-space","title":{"rendered":"Dark Energy May Lurk in the Nothingness of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-energy-may-lurk-in-the-nothingness-of-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new work addresses not only what dark energy is but why the rate of universal expansion has the value it does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody wants to know what dark energy is,\u201d Wang told Live Science. \u201cI reconsidered this question more carefully,\u201d from the perspective of the universe\u2019s energy density.<\/p>\n<p>Wang and his colleagues assumed that modern quantum field theory was correct about the energy density being very large, but that the vacuum fluctuations, or the movements of empty space, were very large on tiny scales, near what is called the Planck length, or 1.62 \u00d7 10 ^ minus 35 meters. That\u2019s so small that a proton is 100 million trillion times bigger.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/59283-why-universe-is-accelerating.html#undefined.gbpl\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/59283-why-universe-is-acceleratin...fined.gbpl<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new work addresses not only what dark energy is but why the rate of universal expansion has the value it does. \u201cEverybody wants to know what dark energy is,\u201d Wang told Live Science. \u201cI reconsidered this question more carefully,\u201d from the perspective of the universe\u2019s energy density. Wang and his colleagues assumed that modern [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57771","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\/57771","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57933,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57771\/revisions\/57933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}