DARK ENERGY IS TIME

A SPECULATION ABOUT DARK ENERGY AND TIME

A SPECULATION ON DARK ENERGY AND TIME

In The  General Theory of Relatively Einstein describes SpaceTime as a fabric that is curved and warped by mass. In other words, mass causes the curvature of this fabric, and the curvature, in turn, causes objects of mass to move through SpaceTime. 

Putting space and time and fabric together into one concept speaks of course to Einstein's genius for daring conceptual mash-ups. Prior to him these words rarely met in the same sentence. To this day it's a concept that's hard to wrap your mind around. How do space and time actually have anything to do with each other? How does empty space, in any way, shape, or form, behave like a fabric? Problem is, this "thought experiment"  works. It makes accurate predictions about the movement of cosmic bodies with breathtaking precision and accuracy.

Having said that there is something peculiar about the fabric of SpaceTime. It started spreading and expanding trillionths of a second after the Big Bang and it hasn't really ever stopped expanding since. In fact, according to Astronomers, the rate of its expansion is increasing. Let's think about this for a minute. The fabric of SpaceTime is something that has been growing exponentially SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. What kind of fabric does that? It is not stretching itself thin, or spreading itself out, as much as it is growing eternally larger. 

Physicists have taken to calling this repulsive force Dark Energy not because it is actually dark, but because it's beyond their conceptual  understanding.

 It's presumptive of me to even speculate on its nature, but I had the odd notion the other day that Dark Energy is actually the "time" in the fabric of SpaceTime equation, that if space doesn't expand there is no such thing as time, and if that expansion were to suddenly stop, time itself would stop too. In other words DARK ENERGY IS TIME, or at least, IS THE MECHANISM BY WHICH TIME IS CREATED. The spreading of Dark Energy then, is the "tick-tock" force driving the Universe's time-piece. Time only moves in one direction, and so does Dark Energy. Thus making of time and space synonymous, making them one thing, a fabric forever interwoven into itself.

The only time this fabric gets disrupted is when it encounters matter. That's when gets bent, folded, and manipulated. This is in outlier, an aberration to the general course of the Universe, which according to physicists, is 73% Dark Energy, 23 % Dark Matter, and only 4% regular matter such as stars, planets, and people. That's means that the way space and time behave in our little corner of the SpaceTime continuum creates a somewhat warped sense for us, of what it actually is, and how it actually behaves.

Dark Energy then is a continuous eternal movement outward, and as any watchmaker will tell you, a timepiece can't work without movement of some kind. Thus I am making the bold speculation that Dark Energy is the very engine of time, the creator of all space, and thus the very weaver of the fabric of SpaceTime itself.

Note: In searching for a image to illustrate this blogpost. The image I selected had a link to an article that actually confirms my independent speculations about this! Two physicists claim to have theoretical proof that Dark Energy is indeed the driving force behind time itself. How ironic I would find this while searching for an image to represent my speculative theory. Positively spooky! In any case here is a link to that article.    http://3tags.org/article/study-suggests-that-dark-energy-is-the-reason-time-moves-forward

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