kazanscube wrote:
I think dark energy is more or less anti-gravity- a type of gravitational force equal to but, with opposite properties of normal gravity.
no it's much easier than that. dark matter is just matter that is not hot and therefore invisible to any form of scrutiny.
dark matter is just cold dust and rocks and it is very abundant.
one may think "if dark matter was so abundant, why can we still see the stars through it?"
just imagine one teaspoon full of talcum powder was equally distributed in a room of 1 cubic kilometer.
it would be very dilute, and insufficient to present a barrier to witnessing what is behind it.
if that concentration of cold dark particles existed in a uniform density throughout the universe, it would have a much greater mass than the things we see which are burning stars.
that is the answer to the gravitational quandary that is currently being argued.
and, all matter is bound energy, and dark matter is bound energy that is unlikely to be spent in the short term, so that is what dark energy is.