Dark Energy & Strings: Does Hooke's Law Apply?

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The discussion centers on the relationship between dark energy, string theory, and Hooke's Law. Participants assert that if space consists of strings, these strings would expand uniformly in all directions due to dark energy. Furthermore, the analogy to Hooke's Law is proposed, suggesting that the force (tension) experienced by strings is proportional to their extension, reflecting the universe's changing expansion rate.

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Dark energy is said to be a property of space that stretches a volume of space in all directions.If space is made of strings, do individual strings expand in all directions? And since the universe is changing its expansion rate, do strings obey some law like Hooke's Law:force (tension) is proportional to extension?
 
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I think it does :D
 

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