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  • Dark energy is basically a placeholder name. We have no direct evidence of it, but we indirectly know it has to exist due to other gravitational effects. As soon as we understand what it is the term “dark energy” will probably be replaced with whatever we discover to cause the observables currently attributed to dark energy, as dark energy is basically scientist for “no fucking idea why we observe these effects, but we do observe them”. I’m not currently an astrophysicist but I spent time during undergrad as a research assistant on a LIGO project










  • I guess n would be infinite in the limit I’m looking for. I’m looking at this in like a “musing about theoretical complexity” angle rather than actually needing to use or know how to use pi on modern systems.

    For the record, I realize how incredibly pedantic I’m being about the difference between the irrational pi and rational approximations of pi that end up being actually useful. That being said, computational complexity has enough math formalism stink on it that pedantry seems encouraged