Dark Energy

[Melchizedek = Michael]

I do not even like the word laws, because it implies permanent and immutable.

Only mathematical theorems are immutable and a offer glimpse into ultimate knowledge.

Scientific theories are provisional and subject to revision or change.

You're contradicting Einstein!

[Celticguy]

Dark energy might be neither particle nor field

Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.

.. there is no evidence that dark energy is anything other than the most basic entity imaginable: a property that is uniformly inherent to space everywhere and at all times. This can come about in one of two different ways very easily:

The universe can possess a positive, non-zero cosmological constant, a term perfectly allowable in general relativity. It has to be very, very small, but when you put it in everywhere over the whole universe, it eventually comes to dominate.

It could be a quantum property of space: the zero-point energy of all the fields in the vacuum of space is not required to be zero but could take on some positive, non-zero value. What we often interpret as quantum fluctuations, or particle-antiparticle pairs popping in and out of existence, could be the cause behind dark energy.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/dark-energy/

or it could be chi. I'm going with chi.

[AProudLefty]

or it could be chi. I'm going with chi.

[Celticguy]

more like this

https://universalenergyarts.com/chi/

[AProudLefty]

more like this

https://universalenergyarts.com/chi/

[Cypress]

or it could be chi. I'm going with chi.

Okay, I did not recognize the spelling, but this is the Qi that the Confucians articulated 2,500 years ago.

A Qi life force obviously has no scientific confirmation, but I can see why the concept held appeal for the ancient Chinese.

[Cypress]

You're contradicting Einstein!

Explain how.

[Melchizedek = Michael]

Explain how.

His equations explain what is going on in the universe.

[Cypress]

His equations explain what is going on in the universe.

Einstein was at the forefront transforming long-accepted scientific dogma into something entirely new.

I believe he would be the first to say scientific knowledge and theories are provisional and subject to modification or change.

[Celticguy]

Okay, I did not recognize the spelling, but this is the Qi that the Confucians articulated 2,500 years ago.

A Qi life force obviously has no scientific confirmation, but I can see why the concept held appeal for the ancient Chinese.

yes its present in a number of different cultures with different spellings.

I would argue the scientific confirmation mainly because science has not figured out how to define and measure it. But I've seen it and people I know far more extensively.

Its real and it could well be this dark energy.

[Melchizedek = Michael]

Einstein was at the forefront transforming long-accepted scientific dogma into something entirely new.

I believe he would be the first to say scientific knowledge and theories are provisional and subject to modification or change.

E=MCsquared will never change,or the theory of relatively

[Cypress]

yes its present in a number of different cultures with different spellings.

I would argue the scientific confirmation mainly because science has not figured out how to define and measure it. But I've seen it and people I know far more extensively.

Its real and it could well be this dark energy.

I for one do not necessarily think we have to have a scientific answer for everything. I do not think we need, nor does one necessarily exist, a scientific explanation for art, imagination, charity, mercy, justice.

In the Neo-confucian Chinese tradition, the Cosmos is held together by both Qi and Li.

They are complementary, and both are necessary for harmony and existence. I have never been crystal clear on their meaning and significance, but Qi is supposed to be a vital life force, and Li is the order or principle reflected in the natural order.

[Celticguy]

I for one do not necessarily think we have to have a scientific answer for everything. I do not think we need, nor does one necessarily exist, a scientific explanation for art, imagination, charity, mercy, justice.

In the Neo-confucian Chinese tradition, the Cosmos is held together by both Qi and Li.

They are complementary, and both are necessary for harmony and existence. I have never been crystal clear on their meaning and significance, but Qi is supposed to be a vital life force, and Li is the order or principle reflected in the natural order.

yeah but its so much more. of course the fun aspect is that its so very basic and elemental.

[Cypress]

E=MCsquared will never change,or the theory of relatively

E=MC2 is a mathematical consequence of the theory of special relativity, it is not, strictly speaking, the theory itself.

The accelerating expansion of the universe discovered in the 1990s contradicts the predictions of general relativity and the Newtonian laws of gravity.

Either there is something wrong with our understanding of gravity and general relativity, or we need to modify them to account for a hitherto unknown force, aka dark energy.

[T. A. Gardner]

Dark energy is simply a way of explaining away what scientists don't fucking know about the universe.