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Dark Energy

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why dark energy speed up expansion?

i use cosmological constant as an example. it is indeed sort of
anti-gravitate. however, this is not a very understandable explanation

a better argument is the following

the expansion of the universe is adiabatic. this means, cut out a
volume in the universe. as universe expand, this volume also
expand. however, the energy within this volume is conserved. now, if
the energy density is a constant (such as a cosmological constant). As
volume increase, there is a contribution from background energy
density that grows with volume. in order for the energy within a
volume to be conserved, there must be a pressure push outward, doing
work, decreasing energy. This is sometimes called negative pressure.

the effect of a negative pressure is of course not just balancing
energy within a comoving volume. it also pushes. it makes the
expansion faster.

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for phantom energy. it is an extreme form of dark enery whose effect
is even stronger than the cosmological constant and it could be
increasing...  

it is could be from a negative kinetic term, and so on.

One should be able to find the discussion of it from the citation of
the paper astro-ph/9908168

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=eprint+astro-ph2F9908168&FORMAT=WWW&SEQUENCE=  

I found the discussion in astro-ph/0104112 pretty interesting.

personally, I am not a big fan of it. mainly because I think it is
experimentally too early to tell. tthe real mytery is not the form of
dark energy, but its size.

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