A energia escura e o Congresso
How to Build a Dark Energy Detector Posted: 25 Jan 2010 09:10 PM PST All the evidence for dark energy comes from the observation of distant galaxies. Now physicists have worked out how to spot it in the lab The notion of dark energy is peculiar, even by cosmological standards. Cosmologists have foisted the idea upon us to explain the apparent accelerating expansion of the Universe. They say that this acceleration is caused by energy that fills space at a density of 10^-10 joules per cubic metre. What's strange about this idea is that as space expands, so too does the amount of energy. If you've spotted the flaw in this argument, you're not alone. Forgetting the law of conservation of energy is no small oversight. What we need is another way of studying dark energy, ideally in a lab on Earth. Today, Martin Perl at Stanford University and Holger Mueller down the road at the University of California, Berkeley, suggest just such an experiment The dark energy density might soun...