Dark energy redshifts cmbr photons

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Dark energy is theorized to absorb energy from cosmic microwave background photons, increasing its total energy and accelerating the universe's expansion. When photons are redshifted, they lose energy, which is transferred to dark energy, potentially causing a phase change similar to water becoming steam. Concerns were raised about whether this absorption could lead to a redshift higher than observed, with questions about dark energy's distribution and its impact on redshift measurements. The discussion also touches on the possibility of dark energy being composed of quantized particle pairs and whether it could be modeled as a vector phenomenon to ensure isotropy. Ultimately, the relationship between dark energy and the expansion of space-time remains a complex and open area of inquiry.
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Dark energy waves absorb energy from photons in intergalactic space
and the total energy of dark energy increases,
increasing the acceleration of the universe.
Because the dark energy is quantised when it absorbs
energy from a photon it changes to a higher energy
quantum state.If a cosmic microwave background photon has a wavelength
of
10^ - 3 metres - an energy of 10^-23 J- then before it was redshifted
it had an energy 1000 times greater-10^ -20 J.Over 10^26 metres - the
current size of the universe - the photon loses 10^-20 - 10^-23 J =
10^-20 J.
This is 10^-20/10^26 J/m i.e 10^ - 46 J /m. If an absorption of
photon energy by dark energy takes place every 10^ -14 seconds - the
photon will travel 10^-6 metre before emitting 10^-46 x 10^-6 = 10^-52 J to
dark energy waves. Using h = E x t we find that
10^ - 52 x t = 10^ - 34
t = 10^18 seconds.
This means that dark energy will emit the energy it has picked up from
photons
10^18 seconds after having done so -the current age of the universe.
When it does emit the photon energy the universe will deccelerate as
the amount of dark energy decreases and gravity dominates.
 
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Dark energy waves absorb energy from photons in intergalactic space
and the total energy of dark energy increases,
increasing the acceleration of the universe.

Is this your idea or do you have a reference?
 
My idea.
I think dark energy undergoes a phase change when it absorbs energy from photons.
If you think of a photon as water and dark energy as water,dark energy absorbs
energy from photons and becomes steam - a gas exerts a greater pressure than a liquid.
 
Does dark energy absorb energy from photons and cause them to redshift?
Someone told me that the redshift would probably be higher than is experimentally observed if this idea was right, but they didn't give details of why. Can someone tell me why the redshift would be higher? And if dark energy isn't uniformly distributed at every point in space - if it was distributed like a uniform volume of atoms- could that reduce the redshift back to the experimentally observed redshift?
Can dark energy consist of individual quantized particle pairs of
some kind?
Apparently quintessence models have difficulty producing the supposed
flatness of the dark energy distribution in a natural way.There is a
paper on the arxiv that models dark energy as phenomenon with three mutually orthogonal Vectors to guarantee isotropy.Is dark energy a
vector phenomenon?
If dark energy absorbs energy from photons and expands it could keep its energy density constant - in other words, can dark energy be space-time?
Space -time is expanding too.
 
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