Scientists at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, suggest that there is no reason to consider the possibility of the existence of so-called dark energy, which, according to previous estimates, would account for about 70% of the composition of the Universe, combined with 25% of matter dark and 5% of conventional elements.
Steen Harle Hansen, associate professor at the research center DARK Cosmology Center and leader of the theory, explains that he and his team developed a computational model in which they found that the dark energy, to which the expansion of our world is attributed, is equivalent to dark matter. loaded with a few more properties. Magnetic fields generated by the inserts would make the presence of what was discarded redundant, he adds.
“We don’t know much about dark matter, unless it is a heavy, slow particle. Anyway, we ask ourselves: what if it had some quality analogous to magnetism? We know that, as normal particles move, the magnets attract or repel other magnets. What if this is what is happening in the Universe? What if this constant expansion of dark matter is occurring thanks to some kind of magnetic force? “, exemplifies Hansen.
It is these questions that led them to create a new way of performing calculations, shaking bases that have already been contested at other times.
