Scientists say they may have detected dark energy
This is neat, but I would take it with so many grains of salt.<p>We don&#x27;t know what dark matter is. We have some ideas. XENON1T was&#x2F;is testing some of those theories about dark matter.<p>We know next to nothing at all about dark energy. We&#x27;re pretty sure it&#x27;s a thing, or else our model of the universe is just completely wrong and it&#x27;s not anything at all.<p>So if XENON1T finds something that doesn&#x27;t fit their model of dark matter, going on a limb and saying &quot;I dunno, maybe it&#x27;s dark energy?&quot; is a fun thought experiment and model, but at best it might lead to further experiments to see how likely that model is to be true. And from what I&#x27;m reading, that&#x27;s the attitude the scientists behind XENON1T are taking here.<p>But alas, we all know that tomorrow we can expect pop-sci articles saying &quot;DARK ENERGY HAS BEEN SOLVED&quot;.