Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Current Ideas and Their Implications

Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Current Ideas and Their Implications

Zdzislaw E. Musielak

Astronomical observations show that our Universe is dominated by Dark Energy (DE) and Dark Matter (DM). Understanding the origin and nature of DE and DM is one of the most challenging and pressing scientific problems of modern science. Elucidating its solution requires new ideas and new approaches. In this paper, standard and non-standard theories to explain DE and DM are reviewed with a special emphasis on recent theoretical developments and their far reaching physical consequences.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 3, 207-216 (2016)

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