Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-04-26
Mod.Phys.Lett. A21 (2006) 1083-1098
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, 5 figures, invited ``brief review'' for Modern Physics Letters A; to appear
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732306020573
A six parameter cosmological model, involving a vacuum energy density that is extremely tiny compared to fundamental particle physics scales, describes a large body of increasingly accurate astronomical data. In a first part of this brief review we summarize the current situation, emphasizing recent progress. An almost infinitesimal vacuum energy is only the simplest candidate for a cosmologically significant nearly homogeneous exotic energy density with negative pressure, generically called Dark Energy. If general relativity is assumed to be also valid on cosmological scales, the existence of such a dark energy component that dominates the recent universe is now almost inevitable. We shall discuss in a second part the alternative possibility that general relativity has to be modified on distances comparable to the Hubble scale. It will turn out that observational data are restricting theoretical speculations more and more. Moreover, some of the recent proposals have serious defects on a fundamental level (ghosts, acausalities, superluminal fluctuations).
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