Hansel and Gretel and a Trail of the Crumbs of Life

If you were trying to find your way through this universe, you would need a path.  If you were an explorer, you would hope that path would provide you with everything you need to carry you on your way, for the journey is long and filled with perils.  This is the same reason Lewis & Clark followed rivers as they worked their way across North America. That path through the universe might be the same one that the original settlers of your area of the universe laid down, laden with the energetic particles and strings that connect us all. It is a very long path and as such, that energy source would need to pack quite a punch in order to span the universe and provide the energy needed.  It would have to provide the electromagnetic, thermodynamic, gravitational and low energy nuclear energy we are so used to here on Earth.

Just recently, an article on Nature has announced that “Traces of hydrogen gas, detected over vast regions of space, have for the first time been used as a standard ruler to measure dark energy — the unknown cosmic energy that is causing the Universe’s expansion to speed up.”

The paywall article can be accessed here

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v498/n7453/full/498179a.html

With some Arxiv references here

As the theme I have repeated over and over, I believe this dark energy is the energetic glue that holds this place together as well as provides the energy for life on our planet through our sunlight which may be just photons released from its decay and our weather patterns which I believe are just a result of this dark energy “pulling a vacuum” in our gaseous atmosphere through these strings and branes we have mistaken as “weather” around us.  It may be that this dark energy, in ionizing the oxygen in our atmosphere, combines to form some of the water (H2O) on this planet, as the atomic hydrogen pops out of the vacuum as this dark energy decays around us and combines with oxygen.