Dark Energy & Curvature of Spacetime

[heliocentricprose]

General relativity says that the gravitational "field" is just the warping of space by mass. I like to think of the ball on the trampoline analogy. Is dark energy, basically negative pressure, be caused by the natural curvature of spacetime?

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[FunkyDwarf]

im not sure what you mean by negative pressure. dark energy came about mainly because the expansion of the universe was accelerating with no obvious energy input, hence the dark energy idea. I don't see why the dark energy would be caused due to curved spacetime, as energy as well as matter can affect it.

 

[pmb_phy]

General relativity says that the gravitational "field" is just the warping of space by mass. I like to think of the ball on the trampoline analogy. Is dark energy, basically negative pressure, be caused by the natural curvature of spacetime?

http://www.geocities.com/ixi_dima_ixi/gr.JPG

What General Relativity actually says is that the presence of a gravitational field can be produced by a change of coordinates, even in flat spacetime. This is so in a uniform g-field for example.

No. Dark energy is, by definition, a positive cosmological constant matter. Since that sounds weird they decided to call it dark energy. So either dark energy or negative pressure could generate a gravitational field, whether the gravitational field be in flat spacetime or curved spacetime.

Pete

 

[George Jones]

What General Relativity actually says is that the presence of a gravitational field can be produced by a change of coordinates, even in flat spacetime. This is so in a uniform g-field for example.

General relativity most certainly does not say this.

In fact, its say the opposite: no change of coordinates can change the non-zero/zero nature of the gravitational field.

 

[Daverz]

What General Relativity actually says is that the presence of a gravitational field can be produced by a change of coordinates, even in flat spacetime.

It would be a bizarre universe indeed if changing from x, y, z to r, \theta, \phi in our equations generated a gravitational field!