What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?

What is Quintessence? Well we know that something is up with the way the universe is expanding - there’s some kind of anti-gravitational effect that’s causing the expansion to accelerate. We don’t know what it is - just that it competes against the inward-pulling effect of gravity. And it’s winning...

16 min - Space & the Universe - PBS Space Time

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