Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
I hate to say it, but its about as reasonable/accurate as: "Mysterious Dark Energy."
Whats mysterious about it? What makes it dark? Energy is colour co-ordinated?
I think people are just going to call it whatever they want. Whos to say they're wrong until this inexplicable mystery is all cleared up?  |
No actually it's not at all.
Saying it's "God's energy" is making an epistemic claim. Saying it's just some generic "dark energy" is not making an epistemic claim.
Really, not similar at all.
And oddly enough, in some ways energy
is colour coordinated. The energy (or wavelength or frequency) of a photon is what determines its "colour". Of course this description is anthropocentric, because colour is nothing more than a human construct. But this obviously has nothing to do with why they call it dark energy.
Dark energy, often called the "cosmological constant" or "lambda" (because of the letter used to denote it in the cosmological literature), was first "discovered" by Einstein. It is called dark because we can't detect it through conventional means. Don't get tripped up in the nomenclature. Astronomers have all sorts of weird names and naming conventions.
If you want to actually learn about this stuff, read the wiki article. If you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer them.