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>yes, more space is created out of nothing! because there's a vacuum energy density that inflate the local patch of universe. I don't think you can say that wi
by macspoofing 5y ago
>yes, more space is created out of nothing! because there's a vacuum energy density that inflate the local patch of universe.
I don't think you can say that with that kind of certainty. We don't have a theory of quantum gravity, we don't know what dark matter is, and we don't know what 'dark energy' is, so we don't actually know what is driving the expansion of the universe, so saying that 'space is created out of nothing' is too strong. Even something like the theory of cosmological inflation, which has some explanatory power, hasn't been experimentally verified, but rather tuned to match the observations.
It's something I've noticed in a lot of communicators of science (whether they have a background in science or not). They tend use terms that overstate our actual knowledge in some specific area of science.
- Iwan-Zotow 5y ago> I don't think you can say that with that kind of certainty. well, any classic (in SM sense) QFT will produce positive vacuum energy density which translates into negative pressure. P = -E
- immmmmm 5y agoyou're absolutely correct, i was referring to models based on classical GR + QFT (standard cosmology + standard model). ofc those are wrong but yield the most accurate predictions any models has ever yielded. i'm almost certain (no proof tho) that space time itself is just an illusion (and that there is only "information "). in other term i know i know nothing (but still is able to give predictions up 10^-32 s after big bang)