Chronology - 13.00

"Assuming that the standard model of cosmology is correct, the best current measurements indicate that dark energy [Q4P∞] contributes 68.3% of the total energy in the present-day observable universe." [Wiki / Dark Energy / Oct 22, 2017]

In case you had any doubt to how much force Q4P exerts in the universe even just on a purely physics basis, Birnbaum notes the truth as even conceded by physics.

Dark Energy (Q4P) accounts for more energy in the perceivable universe than all other sources combined. While this is not a surprising observation to Potentialism, it is to physics. Why?

Physicists have long strived to detail and explain the universe in pure physics terms. To do this, they have relied heavily on the Standard Model. I even hazard to say this is rightly so, because that model has dependably described a lot of the universe and been infinitely helpful to our understanding of the world around us.

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However, almost everything has its limits. For the Standard Model, that was Quantum Physics. At the turn of the last century, science ran into Quantum Physics, which completely defied our understanding of the universe. Suddenly, our understanding of things seemed to contradict itself.

Science sought some way to address this conflict, to find some Unifying Theory that would fix these issues. However, physical science had finally hit a wall. The greatest minds, including even Einstein, could not fathom how to connect all the scientific phenomena they found together. In short, there was no discernable “glue” that held all of reality together.

There was not even a way to explain how our universe was surviving until the concept of Dark Energy came to be. Yet physics could not explain what was right before our eyes.

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