The terms 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' are misleading because they imply these phenomena are matter and energy, when in reality we only know they are 'dark gravity'—a gravitational effect we observe but cannot fully explain; the speaker proposes renaming them 'Fred and Wilma' to avoid the false implication of their nature, while suggesting that the geometry of space itself may explain cosmic expansion without requiring mysterious dark components.
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I wanted to know if there was any thinking discourse on whether dark matter and dark energy affectionately dubbed as Fred and Wilma by in the case of dark energy, could it be that geometry of space allows for peaks and troughs for the accelerated expansion of space and we just happen to be observing the expansion phase. So, I had taken issue with the terms we have invoked to describe dark energy and dark matter cuz it implies that it's energy and matter. And I said, we don't What we know is that it's dark gravity.
That's exact That is what it is. We don't know if it's matter. Maybe it is.
Probably it is, but we don't know. Yeah.
And dark energy is it energy? We don't know. Yeah. So, I said we should just call them Fred and Wilma.
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