Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1032 False Dark Energy
Theories are not necessarily correct. People think they are correct only because they can explain observed phenomena. However, when the theory can explain the phenomenon without it, it is very likely that there are errors in the theory.

Occam's razor principle states that entities should not be added unless necessary. This also makes sense in physical theory.

Based on their own observations, humans estimated that dark matter accounts for 25% of the mass of the universe, dark energy accounts for 70% of the total mass of the universe, and the remaining 5% is visible matter, which is the bright stars in the sky.

But with the advancement of technology, dark energy, which humans previously regarded as equivalent to mass and estimated it in the total mass of the universe, seems to account for a smaller proportion.

The root cause is that with the advancement of science and technology, human civilization has detected more and more unknowns, and the "dark" in dark energy actually means unknown and invisible. In other words, dark energy is something that is invisible and intangible and only exists in theory.

The same is true for dark matter.

With the advancement of science and technology, many things that were originally defined as dark matter have been given names. For example, tachyons were once believed by humans to be a type of hot dark matter. However, after reaching the sixth level of civilization, humans discovered that that view was wrong.

Tachyons are not part of the dark matter system.

As for dark energy, it is even more mysterious. After discovering some dark matter reaction laws, humans realized that the universe does not seem to need so much dark energy.

The visible matter accounts for more than 5% of the total mass of the universe, and the dark energy does not account for 70% of the total mass of the universe. However, the calculated result of dark matter is still close to 25%. The new theory of cosmic evolution believes that in the vast universe, the material world is composed of dark matter and visible matter, while the mass occupied by dark energy is somewhat illusory. It is more like a certain characteristic of space itself. It is not energy in the traditional sense, and intelligent civilization cannot use it as a drive, but it is closely related to the expansion of space and time. Scientific and technological civilization can master it through scientific and technological means and use it to affect the changes in space and time.

The latest research results show that dark energy manifests itself as spatial repulsion in space, which is a tearing repulsion on space itself. However, in the process of tearing space, dark energy will immediately be diluted into the same energy density as the environment. At least the dark energy observed by humans for now is evenly distributed.

However, the observation result of uniform distribution is in irreconcilable contradiction with the theory of space medium, because uniform distribution means that the entire universe is filled with uniform dark energy. Isn't this indirectly saying that dark matter is another version of ether?

Ether does not exist, this is a proven fact, the Michelson-Morley experiment has told humans that ether does not exist. In this case, it should be wrong to say that dark energy is evenly distributed in the universe, otherwise it would become another medium in the universe, that is, alternative ether.

In this regard, many human scientists believe that dark energy is just a strange energy, a kind of energy with certain spatial characteristics. It is not evenly distributed, and that the cosmic evolution theory of human civilization is wrong. The culprit of the expansion of the universe is not dark energy, but the aftermath of the Big Bang itself.

If this theory is correct, then dark energy can be called a strange energy with spatial characteristics. However, even the research of the Dya civilization shows that they have indeed detected the existence of dark energy, and all the data show that dark energy is the culprit for tearing apart space and time.

Contradictions, humans and the Dya civilization discovered irreconcilable contradictions in their exploration of dark energy. Dark energy seems to have become an empty phrase at the sixth level of civilization, but the amazing thing is that there are applications based on it. The warp engine speed enhancement technology uses it. Apart from this, it seems to have various contradictions in other theories.

On the contrary, all the properties of dark matter have been confirmed by both civilizations. For example, it has mass and only manifests itself in gravitational interactions in long-range forces. Only gravity-related technology can discover dark matter. Second, dark matter is not a substance. Like matter, it is composed of dark matter with different properties.
The mining and separation of dark matter deposits have allowed the two civilizations to gain a deeper understanding of it, but the research on dark energy seems to have stagnated after making some achievements.

For a long time, the Shenju civilization often acted as a teacher for humans and Daya civilizations. Therefore, the difficulties encountered by the two civilizations would be raised to this teacher from time to time. Although in many cases no direct answers were given, a lot of inspiration could be gained from it.

The same is true for the research on dark energy this time. At a certain scientific and technological exchange meeting, the two civilizations each explained their own progress in exploring dark energy and the theoretical contradictions they had discovered. The purpose of this was naturally to hope that the scientists from the Shenju civilization present could comment on them.

However, this time, the scientists from the Shenju civilization who attended the meeting acted out of character. They did not show their confidence as usual, but instead told humans and the Daya civilization with sighs that they did not have an accurate answer to the question of dark energy either.

They told humans and the Dyad civilization that they had come to the conclusion through their long-term observations that dark energy is a false energy, but this false energy appears to be very real in some aspects. For example, the improvement of warp technology requires the addition of some dark energy theories, so that the correct results can be calculated and the warp technology can be improved.

But this is its limited application, at least the Shenju civilization itself cannot find any other application methods.

Furthermore, the Shenju civilization also explained the meaning of false energy. They said that based on their observations of the universe for millions of years, they discovered that dark energy is most likely just a projection energy, a false projection of vacuum zero-point energy in the apparent universe. The phenomenon related to the mass of the universe observed by many low-level civilizations is just a calculation result, a concept added in order to make their calculation of the mass of the universe correct.

But we have to say that those calculations were not wrong, they just did not understand the truth.

After reaching the sixth level of civilization, advanced technology allows civilization to observe dark energy, but what is actually observed is not the real dark energy, but the projection of the energy potential well formed by the huge vacuum zero-point energy in the universe.

That energy potential well was so huge that all civilizations believed that it was the missing part of the universe's mass in calculations related to the theory of cosmic evolution.

Speaking of this, scientists from the Shenju civilization also told humans and the Daya civilization that the reason why vacuum zero-point energy is considered to be a symbol of level seven civilization technology is because its energy level is incredibly large, so that with its power, technological civilization can pry open the laws of cosmic physics.

In the end, the Shenju civilization also gave their own speculation, saying that the large-scale application of vacuum zero-point energy might cause a vacuum decay catastrophe in the universe.

(End of this chapter)