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from Inside Science<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bigravity: A Hidden ‘Gear’ for Gravity?<\/h1>\n

Physicists come up with alternate explanation of gravity that may implicate dark energy, which comprises 70 percent of our universe.<\/p>\n

by\u00a0Yuen Yiu<\/p>\n

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An artist’s conception of our universe, where gravity (the green grid) is trying to keep everything together and a mysterious dark energy (the purple grid) is trying to tear everything apart.\u00a0Image credits:\u00a0<\/span><\/em>NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Two physicists from Montana State University in Bozeman propose a way to test an existing theory of gravity where a hidden “gear” may explain the mystery of dark energy — an unknown substance that makes up 70 percent of our universe.<\/p>\n

The paper<\/a>, published in Classical and Quantum Gravity<\/em>, suggests that astronomers may be able to test models of bigravity — a theory in which there are two different components of gravity, as suggested by its prefix — using X-ray, radio and gravitational wave measurements of neutron stars.<\/p>\n

An Ever-Expanding Universe<\/h3>\n

Scientists have known since at least the 1990s that our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. But this doesn’t make sense, because gravity — an attractive force like a rubber band — is supposed to cause our universe to contract or at least slow down the expansion.<\/p>\n

“It’s like if you took a ball and threw it up in the air, but instead of falling back down, it just kept going up faster and faster,” said Andrew Sullivan, a physicist from Montana State University and author of the paper.<\/p>\n

Scientists theorized that some other force must be responsible for ripping the universe apart, and “dark energy” became the placeholder term for the mysterious force.<\/p>\n

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