Dark Energy ,' A mysterious new form of energy seems to make up most of the universe. What in the world is it?

Answer 1

I find it absolutely amazing that when a new item is discovered that scientists and astronomers know absolutely nothing about except that it exists and influences other things around it....people come to Yahoo and ask the average man in the street, plus nearby Astronomy Buffs what it is.

Dark Energy, Black Holes, etc.

As of this date, no one has ever visited a Black Hole, flown by one in a space ship, measured the size of one (Diameter,
Length, etc.), or examined the back side of the hole. So would it not seem logical, therefore, that all answers to these questions are merely conjecture?

I do not mean to insult those of you with advanced degrees in science and physics. I just am amazed at the thought that the deepest, darkest, most unfathomable questions in the Universe have answers right here in Yahoo - as opposed to the answers being found in sophisticated science laboratories and observatories where thousands of highly trained specialists toil away on these very subjects.

Answer 2

Don't know, always get the impression we are kept ignorant about new scientific stuff.

Mass and energy are the same thing, mass/energy says relativity; perhaps dark energy is the same thing but with dark matter - which they say makes up most of the universe (?to account for there being not enough visible matter to produce the gravity to hold galaxies together.)

Answer 3

Dark Energy, Redshifting and Expanding Universe
Science says that the universe was created in a Big Bang 13.5 billion years ago, is still expanding today, and billions of years from now it might collapse by its own gravity with a Big Crunch or continue expanding forever (Big Rip). Moslems say that this is what Allah says. The Quran says that on the first day of creation, God made the heavens and the Earth meshed together, tight and compact (Big Bang), continues to expand it into the universe we know today and at the last day God will recompress it into it’s original state (Big Crunch).

About the first day (Big Bang), Allah says:

[Quran 21.30] Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the Earth were meshed together then We ripped them apart? And then We made of water everything living? Would they still not believe?

About the expanding universe, Moslems say that Allah told them about this expansion 1400 years before it was discovered:

[Quran 51.47] And the heaven, We built it with craftsmanship and We are still expanding.

Scientists just confirmed the existence of "Dark Energy", a mysterious repulsive force that acts in opposite to gravity. As the distance increases the attractive gravitational force decreases but this mysterious repulsive force increases. This repulsive force is pushing galaxies apart; the greater the distance the greater the repulsion. Scientists today do not know what this "Dark Energy" is, but they know that it is causing the entire universe to expand at an increasing rate. Do you remember how a rose opens up? That is, the outer petals move outwards more than the inner petals?

http://www.speed-light.info/relativity_quran.htm#redshift

Answer 4

Lol..another theory by scientists..dark mater..I wonder who thought that one up.
Oh god they cant find the answer to the ultimate question what will it take to make the universe collapse so they invent a thing called dark mater which they cannot even prove exists.
there is no such thing as dark mater otherwise it would have been detected.
the universe has its own method of final collapse.
trust me.
All those billions spent on dark mater cold help dark children.
At least they exist.

Answer 5

Totally and absolutely unknown at this time. Whatever it is, it seems to be causing the expansion of our universe to accelerate instead of de-accelerate as logic would have it. Lots of ideas and work being done, but so far no definitive answers.

Answer 6

Ever think that we're reading volume one, chapter two, on how the universe works and there's still another 40 volumes to go?

Answer 7

The Conservative Party.

Nobody knows what it is, where it came from or what it does; just that it is there.

Good job it is there really, or the Universe would implode with a big ''Perwhap!'' and a dread-full sucking sound.

Answer 8

Below is a link in todays (Aug 18) space.com on your question. Just when you thought you had a question, you really have two.

Answer 9

Dark matter.

Space is mostly hydrogen.

For (approx) every centimetre cubed there is only one hydrogen atom.

Dark matter has no atoms.

Answer 10

The spirit world or just plain matter that emits no light...depending on who you are.