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Thanks - very interesting paper, I will give a deeper response once I have gone over it a few times. Michael

It's an honor to join such a prestige group of scientists, I will try my best to post queries of interest.

Thanks to everyone for responding to my questions, I am new to this forum, and following your suggestions will be studying further before posting questions I should know the answers to, my apologies.

You are right, sorry about that, I will be more careful in the future regarding personal theories.

What explains the acceleration of the expansion of the universe?Observations of the explosions of white dwarf stars in binary systems, so-called Type Ia supernovae, in the 1990s then led scientists to the conclusion that a third component, dark energy, made up 68% of the cosmos, and is...

Thanks for that PeroK. My understanding from the physics I studied and read now, is that the explanation for acceleration is due to dark energy, not the expansion, and that this acceleration is recent in the history of the universe, and that raises more questions, like why suddenly dark energy...

This could be done by simply measuring the acceleration in different directions, if there is a variation, then that disproves "dark energy" which is assumed to be uniform, in favor of an outside force that would not be uniform.

Thanks PeroK, the question still remains, why latch onto "dark energy" as the only solution when there is no data supporting the existence of "dark energy" the fact that in theory it solves an equation is not experimental data proving the existence of "dark matter". For example the acceleration...

I agree with you. My next question is about dark energy, I understand that is solves certain equations that calculate the rate of acceleration of the universe. My question is, how do we know that this particular solution matches reality, at this point it is just theoretical physics without any...

Quote from NASA: My understanding of dark energy is based on NASA's report: https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy; were NASA state as follows: "It turns out that roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest - everything on...