[ExI] New Analysis claims Dark Energy not required to model cosmic expansion

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Dark energy 'doesn't exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' Universe apart
Date:December 20, 2024       Source:Royal Astronomical Society

The new evidence supports the "timescape" model of cosmic expansion,
which doesn't have a need for dark energy because the differences in
stretching light aren't the result of an accelerating Universe but
instead a consequence of how we calibrate time and distance.

<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241220133038.htm>
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It takes into account that gravity slows time, so an ideal clock in
empty space ticks faster than inside a galaxy.
The model suggests that a clock in the Milky Way would be about 35 per
cent slower than the same one at an average position in large cosmic
voids, meaning billions more years would have passed in voids. This
would in turn allow more expansion of space, making it seem like the
expansion is getting faster when such vast empty voids grow to
dominate the Universe.
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