Greetings list members. This is my joining post. Recent headlines indicate that there is empirical evidence now that our known universe is about 13 billion years old, it is essentially flat, and that space/time continues to be inflationary (we are in a continuing big bang state) after experiencing an initial expansion phase originating from a singular point -- followed a few billion years later by some sort of phase change that cause the universe to change from a slowing down expansion rate to a speeding up expansion rate. The properties of "dark energy" are postulated now to be the cause of continued and ever increasing in rate expansion of space/time, the continuing big bang state.
The properties of dark matter are postulated to be the cause of observed gravitational interactions within the universe as a whole and where there is insufficient observable "normal" matter to account for the observations. Dark matter is now said to greatly exceed the amount of matter that we are able to measure and verify as existent. Neither dark energy nor dark matter has been proven by experiment or measurement to exist. Both seem as pure postulates at this writing. To me, dark energy seems to be the more important postulate. It appears to me that if the universe will forever keep expanding at an ever increasing rate then within a non infinite time period no elementary particle of matter will be able to interact with another. That condition seems to indicate that relativity would thus be meaningless when that point in time occurs. To my logic this argument appears to violate conservation of energy law. If the argument is nonetheless true, then it follows that said law is not a real law and that our entire theory structure is faulty at a fundamental level. I would be most pleased to here read comments from the list members. Ron McFarland
