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Dark matter and dark energy proposals: maintaining cosmology as a true science?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2009

E. Pécontal ,
T. Buchert ,
Ph. Di Stefano ,
Y. Copin  and
G.F.R. Ellis
G.F.R. Ellis*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Abstract

I consider the relation of explanations for the observed data to testability in the following contexts: observational and experimental detection of dark matter; observational and experimental detection of dark energy or a cosmological constant Λ; observational or experimental testing of the multiverse proposal to explain a small non-zero value of Λ; and observational testing of the possibility of large scale spatial inhomogeneity with zero Λ.

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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 36: Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories , 2009 , pp. 325 - 336
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2009

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