Though it´s a little like Fermi´s famous question with regard to ETs: ¨Where are they?¨
Why can´t we sample this ¨dark energy¨ directly as it´s supposed to be everywhere?
Why can´t we sample this ¨dark energy¨ directly as it´s supposed to be everywhere? Just like we couldn't sample gamma rays 200 years ago or why we couldn't detect neutrino's a hundred years ago. They were everywhere and we didn't know it.
How many neutrinos do you see fly through your eyeballs each day?
Why can´t we sample this ¨dark energy¨ directly as it´s supposed to be everywhere? Do you have a 'dark' hair-blower , or any 'dark' lights?
If not, then what do you need dark energy outlets for?
Is it the name that bothers you? Because we can call it 'magic pixie dust', if people will just quite demanding that scientists actually produce some.
[Why can´t we sample this ¨dark energy¨ directly as it´s supposed to be everywhere?]
Maybe because it's not uniformly distributed. Think of the way salt crystals form within a solution, for example. The energy constituting the universe is similarly lumpy - both visible and not-so-visible.
That hypothesized invisible lumpiness is consistent with observable evidence for dark matter/energy ala gravitational lensing.
Consider also the issue of a conception of "dark matter" as being in a form equivalent to the matter we're used to interacting with. It's not.
Dark Mass would be more accurate than dark matter.
Presuming that matter is merely energy in a locally organized state, we can explain "dark" matter as localized energy where E is insufficient to manifest the strong forces required to form "normal" visible matter - but where the Mass associated with E is still present nonetheless.
Thus the effect of gravitational lensing produced by Mass that is essentially invisible.