Uh oh, looks like the “giant atom” idea might not work either. I had been under the assumption that dark energy would cause two orbiting bodies to spiral apart. But on second thought, it seems like what would actually happen is that an orbit affected by dark energy would still be stable, it would just have a longer period than it would have had in the absence of dark energy. Thus it wouldn’t gain gravitational potential energy over time.
It looks like the best hope now might be for a breakthrough or paradigm shift in cosmology and/or physics. For instance, if something like Jamie Farnes’ dark fluid theory turns out to be true (in which dark energy and dark matter are both the same, negative-mass object). Alternatively, it might be possible to survive a trip through a rotating black hole into another universe, and when that universe’s usable energy is exhausted, just repeat the process ad infinitum. (There’s a lot we don’t know about black holes). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
