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  2. Dark energy - Wikipedia

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    Under this scenario, dark energy would ultimately tear apart all gravitationally bound structures, including galaxies and solar systems, and eventually overcome the electrical and nuclear forces to tear apart atoms themselves, ending the universe in a "Big Rip". On the other hand, dark energy might dissipate with time or even become attractive.

  3. Michael S. Turner - Wikipedia

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    Michael S. Turner (born July 29, 1949) [1] is an American theoretical cosmologist who coined the term dark energy in 1998. [2] He is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Chicago, [3] having previously served as the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, [4] and as the assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences ...

  4. Quintessence: The Search for Missing Mass in the Universe

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    His primary contribution is to cosmology as one of the first physicists to suggest that most of the mass and energy of the universe resides in empty space, an idea now widely known as "dark energy". Furthermore, Krauss has formulated a model in which the universe could have potentially come from "nothing," as outlined in his later book A ...

  5. Quintessence (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Studies with quintessence dark energy found that it dominates gravitational collapse in a spacetime simulation, based on the holographic thermalization. These results show that the smaller the state parameter of quintessence is, the harder it is for the plasma to thermalize.

  6. The 4 Percent Universe - Wikipedia

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    Dark energy, however, is a substance or force responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe over time. [2] The significant focus of The 4 Percent Universe is on the developments of astronomical science in the 20th century, including the formation of the expanding universe theory by Edwin Hubble in the 1930s.

  7. Horndeski's theory - Wikipedia

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    Horndeski's theory is the most general theory of gravity in four dimensions whose Lagrangian is constructed out of the metric tensor and a scalar field and leads to second order equations of motion. [ clarification needed ] The theory was first proposed by Gregory Horndeski in 1974 [ 1 ] and has found numerous applications, particularly in the ...

  8. Dark fluid - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy and cosmology, the dark fluid theory attempts to explain dark matter and dark energy in a single framework, as suggested by cosmologist Alexandre Arbey in 2005. [1] [2] The theory proposes that dark matter and dark energy are not separate physical phenomena, nor do they have separate origins, but that they are strongly linked together and can be considered as two facets of a ...

  9. Dark-energy star - Wikipedia

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    The theory states that infalling matter is converted into vacuum energy or dark energy, as the matter falls through the event horizon. The space within the event horizon would end up with a large value for the cosmological constant and have negative pressure to exert against gravity. There would be no information-destroying singularity. [1]