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Dark Matter and Dark Energy: A Slow Reaction ⚡ экспресс

Original: "A microphysically inspired approach to dark matter-dark energy interactions: first bounds on dark-sector scattering cross sections"
arXiv:2601.05646v2 · 2026-01-09 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Cosmology
Scientists described the transformation of dark matter and dark energy as a reversible chemical reaction resulting from collision physics.
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The cosmos is full of invisible components — dark matter and dark energy. A new model showed: they can turn into each other, like ice melting into water, but with one condition — it happens incredibly rarely. If such interactions were faster, the night sky would look different. Now scientists understand why we haven't caught a single such event yet — it hides in strict natural prohibitions.

🎯 If such a process ran at the maximum allowed rate, there would still have been only a few thousand transformations in the entire visible Universe since the Big Bang.

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Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
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dark energy dark matter expansion of the universe
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Friedmann equationsHubble's lawgravitational lensingvirial theorem
Original: arXiv:2601.05646v2 · CC BY · bridge42worlds