Hitoshi Murayama Quotes (4 Quotes)

Less energy in a given volume tells you that the universe should be expanding slower, but because it is not, what that means is that energy is somehow increasing.

That was a convenient picture of what we thought everything was made of. The more recent realization is that it's not the case.

One idea that I toyed around with is that dark energy is a complicated network of rubber sheets. If you stretch them, you have to provide force and because of it, the sheet gains energy. The universe expansion is much like stretching this network of sheets, which increases energy.

These questions used to be just the subjects of philosophy or metaphysics. Now that we can try with scientific methods, we hope to continue the tradition.