The great void in the heart of the 'dark energy' hypothesis.

[Michael Mozina]

Aside from the obvious fact that space hasn't ever been shown to "expand", let alone "accelerate, it would appear that there is a great void in the heart of dark energy theory. A few years back some authors wrote a paper that suggested that the concept of acceleration could be an optical illusion based on our unique location in the universe. It used GR theory to discuss the curvature and geometry of a spacetime that we might observe if we were living inside of a low density void rather than an area of average mass density.

https://www.universetoday.com/15719/the ... dle-of-it/
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0807.1443

Later papers tried to refute this idea by suggesting that we didn't really live in a void, but more recent studies tend to counter those arguments:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronom ... smic-void/

If indeed our galaxy sits in a void, the whole concept of 'dark energy" become geometrically irrelevant. It could simply be an optical illusion based upon our location in the universe.

I think we all know that the likely cause of photon redshift isn't "space expansion" or "space acceleration" in the first place, but even based on their own LCDM model, dark energy theory could be on very shaky footing depending on our location and local density conditions. It's an interesting dilemma for the mainstream, particularly since that metaphysical bad boy makes up the vast majority of LCDM theory.

Stay tuned.....

[BeAChooser]

Thanks. Very interesting.

[Michael Mozina]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/does-light-e ... 52247.html