Experts have made a discovery that challenges the long-held understanding of how the universe is expanding. A recent study, ...

Quintessence would be some form of energy ... cosmological constant problem will reveal deeper truths about quantum physics and general relativity. Or maybe scientists will discover a simpler ...

Steinhardt admits he hasn’t come up with any fundamental explanation of why the quintessence field would change in this way. The answer, he says, could lie in new physics, perhaps in a new ...

Unlike the cosmological constant, quintessence can be either repulsive ... colleague described in a 2019 paper in the journal Physics Letters B), the universe follows a cyclical pattern of ...

They've developed several different ideas, including the theory of "quintessence," which proposes ... need for dark energy and dark matter Unknown physics may help dark energy act as 'antigravity ...

Models are abundant in virtually all branches of physics, with some achieving iconic ... The tight-binding model evinces the quantum-mechanical quintessence of electrons in a solid: the emergence ...