Sidharth B. The Dark Energy Paradigm. The Mysterious Universe 2025

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This book offers a compelling and philosophical exploration of the physical origins of inflation in the universe, grounded in the dimensional analysis of quantum mechanics and general relativity models. It posits that vacuum fluctuations drive inflation, presenting original ideas built upon the author’s previous work. In the late 1990s, the author introduced the concept of dark energy and an accelerating universe, which was promptly confirmed by the observations of Perlmutter, Kirschner, and Riess. The discovery of dark energy has led to several new paradigms, including the intriguing notion that spacetime is discrete, resembling a Cantor set