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I just murdered Dark Energy

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No More Grumpkins Physics loves a ghost story. For over a century, when the math hasn’t lined up with the sky, we’ve conjured new “fields,” “energies,” and “fluids” to keep our equations safe—dark matter, dark energy, inflaton fields, quintessence, and, when all else fails, the cosmological constant. These aren’t discoveries. They’re placebos for our ignorance. We give them Greek letters, assign them equations of state, and congratulate ourselves for “solving” the problem with what is, in the end, a well-dressed fudge factor. The universe, meanwhile, does not care what we call our Grumpkins. What if we stopped apologizing for the data and started asking what the universe is actually telling us? What if the so-called “axis of evil” in the cosmic microwave background—the unambiguous, statistically robust alignment of low-order multipoles—was not a cosmic accident or foreground smear, but a real, physical clue? What if the observed acceleration of the universe was not the doing of a ...