The Dark Energy Is Not Dark Matter, Is It?

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For them to be the dark energy would mean that the total amount of energy density in black holes is much bigger. That just seems wildly at odd with what we know about the universe, he says. "I think if I want other people to use their valuable time to pour through my paper and try to understand what it is saying ... then I got to give them some reason"

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