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Old 08-December-2006, 11:07 PM
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No one has a good model for Dark Energy...
Bad model

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Observed density of universe: 3E-27 kg/m^3
Observed expansion rate: 2E-18 /s
Estimated power ("dark energy") required to expand (Newtonian) universe at observed rate: 1E-8 j/s/kg
Estimated radiant power output of visible universe: 2E-8 j/kg/s
There's your source of dark energy.
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