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What's your take on Dark Energy?
Dark energy is the repulsive force that causes the expansion of space to accelerate. It is often simplified as a cosmological constant, but this fails to do it justice.
First, it is not a constant. It has an effect that increases over time.
Second, it is not really a 'repulsive' force. It's more of an entropic one, akin to the second law of thermodynamics.
The universe is in a state of entropy, which can be described as disorder. It will always go from order to disorder.
The universe is expanding. This means that there are more and more places where order can arise from disorder, thus increasing entropy.
Dark energy is the result of this entropy. It's the force that causes expansion.