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murongqingcao
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A few years ago I came to this forum to ask about the issue of space expansion...and the answer I got then was that the expansion is the nature of the space (or space-time) according to relativity or some other more advanced theory...no one used dark energy to explain the issue at that time...now because of the 2011 nobel prize, should we say that the assumption that the space would expand by itself is not correct but we need to introduce the dark energy to explain this?
My interest to this issue is philosophical...to me, the self expansion and the dark energy theory are two different philisophies: the first treats the space as "something", but the second treats the space as the empty container and any symptoms of expansion could only be meaningful by the departure of the bodies in that container, which is caused by some energy inside the the container, and that some energy is dark energy...
Would anyone to kindly clarify the issue here for me? Thanks a lot in advance.
My interest to this issue is philosophical...to me, the self expansion and the dark energy theory are two different philisophies: the first treats the space as "something", but the second treats the space as the empty container and any symptoms of expansion could only be meaningful by the departure of the bodies in that container, which is caused by some energy inside the the container, and that some energy is dark energy...
Would anyone to kindly clarify the issue here for me? Thanks a lot in advance.