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Date: December 11, 2025 11:54PM

I wonder what they would say. It turns out there may not be dark energy after all... No really! Hitler's make-believe, that there's a dark sun, with dark energy, that the Reich could secretly harvest and win the war, isn't there. Science now knows this.

The fact this is being said 2024-2025 demonstrates how much money has been poured into looking for it since the war.

So back to the image... either energy has mass, or the universe isn't so large after all?

Tip: Einstein's Relativity is no longer a theory, it's fact. So not only does gravity bend light, it slows it down as it leaves a sun and speeds it up as it approaches one. Observed light is what gives us measurements of the size of the universe. That universe should have a certain mass. Scientists couldn't find it (Higgs Boson) and looking for it is what the Hadron Collider is (partly) about.

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Date: December 14, 2025 11:10PM

Now for the hand grenade in this: all light reaching us from outside the solar system is heavily red shifted. That means the object emitting the light was moving away very fast at the time. So less light reaches us each second than was emitted each second. This reduces the size of the universe by a full figure multiple. It may be two figures.

Now for the atom bomb: due to the fact you're measuring from light, if the universe isn't as large it isn't as old (yes, that's simplified). If its age fits the Biblical time frame then you can't see people as the result of random chance, nor may you treat them that way (think politicians social engineering their countries, instead of following its constitution and representing their constituents, jab mandates and the list goes on). There's been an iron fist domino effect from Charles Darwin.

Now for the thermonuclear device: the domino effect the other way will be just as merciless.

The only question is, what ideas drive it?

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Date: December 14, 2025 11:20PM

I should add: when light escapes a star's gravitational pull it's slowed down. How much depends on the star's gravitational strength. It then travels until it's caught in the gravitational pull of another star (for us to observe it, the sun). It then speeds up.