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4. It causes empty space to repel itself.
Nonsense. We have no experience with "empty space". "Dark
energy" is just a catchy code phrase for the observation that the
expansion of the Universe is apparently accelerating - according to the
most recentt measurements. The observation can be "explained" by invoking
Einstein's "cosmological constant". The difficulty, for many theorists,
is that there is no a posteriori justification known for the observed
value of the constant.