Dark Energy not Required?

Hi Jorrie, as you may remember, I have always had a problem with dark energy and matter, so you can imagine how HAPPY I AM to hear this!

Hi PlbMak, I agree with you on this one! Spencer.

Another illustration of my rant on how we use "spooky language" as a filler for "We don't (yet?) know." But I guess we have to name it so we know which thing we don't yet know that we're talking about at any given time.

What does it mean: "decay of the virtual particles"?????...

I don't understand it at all...

Have you any idea what does this mean???...

Hi George.

I just found the original PhysRevLett paper on the web as a pdf. I must say that I'm disgusted with the article in ARSTechnica that I referred to before: it was clearly written by a journalist that had no idea of what he was talking about.

There is no mention of "decay of virtual particles" in the original and it also does not talk about Loop quantum Gravity! It says "... We have explored the cosmological effects of some very simple nonlocally modified Einstein models inspired by loop corrections", which is something totally different.

I do not fully understand all of the Letter, but it is nevertheless very interesting and I'm still studying it.

Jorrie