“We Exist in a Cyclical Universe” —Chinese Scientists Measure Cosmic Expansion With a ‘Magic Ruler’
“What it means is that dark energy, which causes cosmic expansion, might not be a vacuum energy with a constant density, like many scientists previously believed, but rather an energy field with certain dynamic properties,” said Zhao Gongbo, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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