Radical New Theory Says we got Energy Conservation Wrong, That's Why we Need Dark Energy

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I got quite a few questions about a paper that supposedly revolutionizes our understanding of the universe by throwing out energy conservation. The questions came in two varieties. Can you do that, isn’t energy always conserved? And isn’t energy conservation violated anyway? I thought it would be interesting to clear this up because I think the idea isn’t remotely as crazy as it sounds. Let’s have a look.

Paper is here: https://link.springer.com/article/10....

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