
What is early dark energy?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Darkchenanagans
Early dark energy is a special puzzle for theorists because they have to explain exist and also why it no longer seems to exist, right? It's just as tricky as inflation. Like, with inflation, we have this very rapid expansion of the early universe, which you have to explain,. You also have to explain why that's stopped. And they also have to get up early, which is a big problem, or just stay up late enough, or drink a lot of dark coffee. I would love if we had called it darkshenanigan. That's ri d s for short, ecause it med have dark matter, energy and direction. Why not just call it darkchen
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