https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dark-en ... -research/
Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep below Italy’s Apennine Mountains.
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They constructed a physical model to help explain the results, which may have originated from
dark energy particles
produced in a region of the Sun with strong magnetic fields, although future experiments will be required to confirm this explanation.
Again, note that NASA’s websites don’t talk about dark energy being a particle. They mention the possibility it’s a “virtual” particle, but then dismiss that notion, as Scientific American notes (
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... rk-energy/ ), because the vacuum energy that is required “would rapidly rip the Universe to shreds, and plainly that has not happened”.
In the Standard Model, it's true that particles ... bosons ... can carry force. So are they trying to suggest this DE particle is a boson? The LHC certainly hasn’t found any proof that DE is due to a boson so far. Back in 2013 it was being suggested that the Higgs boson was a “portal” to DE, but so they found nothing conclusive, and they’re getting to the point where they’re going to have to build an even bigger collider to keep searching (which will cost lots and lots of money … a lot more than the $13 billion it cost for the LHC to find the Higgs boson).
Of course, when the advocates of a new collider talk about the cost, they like to point out that there are lots of billionaires around, but you and I know that ultimately, WE are the ones who will be paying for it. So just how much more money are you willing to *donate* to a new generation of particle/astro physicists? How much has what you *donated* so far, changed your life for the better? Very little, I imagine.
I hate to be jaded about the search for new *knowledge*, but I’ve had enough of gnomes. Perhaps we need to be concentrating on incrementally increasing knowledge that will likely have more of a positive impact on everyday life and the economy, then these boondoggles hoping to explain *everything* … until we can again afford such massive expenditures. Just saying ...