
How to Avoid Dark Energy
March 15, 2008
Who needs dark energy? Copernicus? George Ellis (U. of Cape Town) said we could get rid of dark energy by throwing the Copernican Principle overboard. Writing in Nature,1 he said that dark energy may simply be an artifact of the geometry of space-time. Copernicus did not invent the Copernican Principle. He was just […]