Empty space itself has energy, whether or not there's stuff (particles, radiation, whatever). This energy exerts a push on the universe. We call it dark energy .This stuff is the dominant stuff of the universe. Almost three quarters of the matter-energy content of the universe is this energy... and we don't know what it is.

THIS BABY UNIVERSE

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