Dark energy with rigid voids versus relativistic voids alone
arXiv:1305.4415 · doi:10.1142/S0218271813410186
Abstract
The standard model of cosmology is dominated - at the present epoch - by dark energy. Its voids are rigid and Newtonian within a relativistic background. The model prevents them from becoming hyperbolic. Observations of rapid velocity flows out of voids are normally interpreted within the standard model that is rigid in comoving coordinates, instead of allowing the voids' density parameter to drop below critical and their curvature to become negative. Isn't it time to advance beyond nineteenth century physics and relegate dark energy back to the "no significant evidence" box?
8 pages, 2 figures, fifth award in 2013 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition
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