From: rloldershaw@amherst.edu   
      
   On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 5:25:01 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote:   
      
   > Dark energy is a way of representing the vacuum energy that establishes   
   > a cosmological constant. The accelerated expansion is in this   
   > scenario is due to the expansion of spatial surfaces embedded in   
   > spacetime. The authors here propose a real force of some sort, which   
   > by extension means the MIlky Way galaxy or the region around it is   
   > in a center of the universe. That is a difficult implication of   
   > this model.   
      
   I suggest that you get help with understanding this paper. Your second   
   to last sentence indicates a very incorrect understanding of the paper,   
   which clearly does not invoke the Earth or the MWG being at the "center   
   of the universe". Sigh.   
      
   [Moderator's note:  There is perhaps a misunderstanding here.  The   
   abstract says "These instabilities create a large, central region of   
   uniform under-density which expands faster than the SM".  So the idea is   
   not that the Earith or the MWG is at the centre of the universe, but   
   rather at (or very near) the centre of a large underdense region.  -P.H.]   
      
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