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Quickly describing things...anyway...Dark Engery Replacement
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- Jesse Fries

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[00:00:17] Jesse Fries:

Unfortunately,   one of my favorite breweries in the Austin area, Black Star Co op Brewery, is, closing in a couple days.   So I'll be headed out for lunch today to finally eat their tasty, tasty burger and have a great beer,   before they close down.   Anyway,   this is the AnyWay podcast, and I'm your host, Jesse Fries.   Today, I will be talking   about   time and space and everything like that. So everybody has probably heard or a lot of people have heard of dark energy.   Just this idea that there's a energy force out there that is causing our universe to expand faster   and faster and faster.  

Well,   it's called dark energy because nobody could actually understand it.   Some people have actually   figured it out, though, or at least they have, found   that it's not really dark energy that's causing it.   A team of scientists   at the University   of Canterbury   in New Zealand have found   that it's not dark energy. It's just space time that is causing a problem.   What this means is that   so   the universe is made up of space, right, of mass,   and there's time,   mass,   and things like that. And so all this can lead to weird things, especially if you take Einstein's theory of relativity into it.   With Einstein,   he says that   space and time   can't be   warped   by mass   and so on and so forth.  

And so with that, you can warp space, but you can also   warp   time. And this is where it gets into   this idea   of   mass affecting   time, which causes   humans or us to view that the   universe is expanding faster than it is,   if any of that makes sense. I know it's a bit of gobbledygook.   But basically, what it is is that   it appears that the universe is   expanding faster than it is, but that's only because there's voids.   So   voids,   lack of mass,   large expanses of voids   in between mass, and   time flows differently   within   that   void   than it does say here in the Milky Way.   Almost to,   the scientists said that it's about 35%   slower   in our Milky Way than it is in the void. So mass affects space time, which affects how you see things,   and which affects   how we think the universe is expanding.  

Because if time is different, that means things are actually moving at a slightly different rate, but that's only based off of   time.   And as the faster you go,   the slower the time goes.   I know it's kind of crazy, but that's what it is. So somebody has actually figured out that it's not really dark energy. Now they haven't fully proven that,   but they say that it is a space time thing, which   is kinda   really, really exciting   for our understanding   of the universe.