well kmarina you got some real interesting points.<br />the universe we see is definitely as seen through the dark energy medium.<br /><br />as for someones post above stating that gravity is a weak force and wouldnt qualify as an equal opposite to repulsive dark energy, I can't understand that yet, <br />I still think dark energy could be the equal opposite, just include<br /> the 'weakness' characteristic when you chose to observe oppositeness, in other words equal because it deals with attraction and repulsion, and opposite<br />in that one is weak and the other is anti-weak ?if you disagree then what if gravity is a weak force but dark energy is even weaker but unlike gravity it compounds over great distances the more the gravity is diluted?or what if gravity affects matter, but dark energy as an opposite pole of the froce affects empty space?in other words<br />empty space near one end of 'the force' has no effect, but on the opposite pole<br />you have the opposite effect that you notice when matter is near that pole. Near 'pole A' matter is atrractive at close distances, and near 'pole B' space is repulsive/expansive at large distances. Try to think of this more <br />as the dark force. <br /><br /><br />suppose you had a real big unbreakable bed sheet , and then you dropped<br />some black hole marbles on it at great distances apart. the super heavy marbles would then start<br />sinking, stretching the sheet at essentially every point on that sheet, although<br />in different directions, towards a marble the closer you get to one, but almost <br />perpendicular to a marble's gravity well at places far away from a marble where<br />it appears to us as some mystery repulsive areas where the sheet is actually expanding and not coincidentally at places away from the marble gravity wells?<br /><br />???<br /><br />is this basically what is being discussed and is that basically what dark energy <br />is? and why distant things repel each other with anti gravity ? and why space expa <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>