dark_energy mp21k New light on dark energy 24 June 2004 Cosmologists in the US have made the most accurate measurements ever of how dark energy varies with time -- and found that it remains perfectly constant. If dark energy became progressively weaker, the universe would eventually tear apart in a "big rip". If it became stronger, on the other hand, the universe would collapse in on itself in a "big crunch". http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/6/14 040625 ... mp21k Could dark energy be studied in the lab? 29 June 2004 It might be possible to measure the properties of "dark energy" in the laboratory according to physicists in the UK and Canada. A relatively simple experiment based on superconducting devices known as Josephson junctions could show if some or all of the dark energy in the universe is due to quantum_fluctuation(s) of the vacuum http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/6/17 040702 ... ? Zero_point Fields 041223 ... Emptyness Alivew powers me forward 061123 ... Emptyness Alive powers me forward 061123 ... unhinged sa_roc 181011 what's it to you? who go blather from