Will dark energy unlock the secrets of the universe?

Answer 1

Not really, at least not anymore than what it already has, if I recall my reading on the topic correctly.

It's already unlocked one big secret as it is--why the universe is still expanding in spite of all predictions to the contrary. But.

--Dark energy itself is one of those things that is rather elusive, like the wave nature of matter. It's there but you have to go to great lengths to make it clear and obvious because almost *any* source of heat or energy in the outside environment can drown it out. With the Wave nature of matter, you have to chill things down to near absolute zero before helium becomes a Bose-Einstein Condensate and you see it clearly. Likewise, with Dark Energy, the presence of *any* matter bends space enough to seriously interfere with the detection of it.

Basically, you have to create a fairly hard vacuum, and then put said vacuum *in orbit* around the earth in free fall, where local gravity is less of an influence, before you have any real chance of detecting it.

--Even so, Dark Energy has been described by physicists as a "medium scale" force. Meaning it really doesn't do much until or unless you have *a LOT* of empty space to work with. It's been calculated that the "dark energy" potential of the vacuum inside of an incandescent light bulb *might* be enough to boil a *teacup* of water. Maybe. That or less.

So it's not going to be enough, by itself, to say, launch a *Starship* after the manner of _Star Trek_. ^_^

Still, I could be wrong on this as a) the track record already shows Dark Energy being responsible for *one big secret* as it is, and b) Dark Energy *is* everywhere, rather like the Wave nature of matter...it does permeate all of reality whether we can detect it as such or not.

So who knows? ^_^

Answer 2

I just don't see it. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

In fact, dark matter/energy has been observed; so it's no longer just a theory. [See source.]

At about 96% of all mass in the known universe, getting a handle on what it is, why it's there, and how it works will certainly go a long way in revealing some universal secrets. But, as Jodi Foster in "Contact" said, "The universe is a pretty big place...." So uncovering the dark matter/energy secrets will unlock some, but not close to all the secrets of the universe. It should help resolve why galaxies don't fly apart under their own centrifugal forces for example.

Answer 3

Considering that antimatter is HIGHLY unstable and decays very quickly even in a vacuum, I would have to say that it is most likely NOT antimatter. Even if it was antimatter, the relative density of normal matter across the universe would still be enough to cause MASSIVE energy-releasing events from matter-antimatter cancellation almost continuously (starting from right now), which would definitely be detectable by even the smallest telescopes.

Answer 4

yes, 6 energies: anti-matter/velocity/rotation/ magnetism/gravity/matter,
by using infinite energy devices that use fractal processing, a robotic intelligence can be derived that psychically interprets requests involving the 12 super-powers and some examples are christ healing and that show- full metal alchemist

Answer 5

no