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Re:Are black holes made of dark energy? by ur-whale on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:21AM (#20941088)
>what if dark energy is simply the quantum harmonic oscillator

Is there anything at all in the whole of physics that isn't, at some point, shoehorned in the "mass on a spring" framework </sarcasm>

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Re:Are black holes made of dark energy? by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:06PM (#20941685)
The reason everything gets "shoehorned" into "mass on a spring" is that this is the first term in the Taylor expansion.

No matter how ugly an expression you have for force as a function of distance, if you do the Taylor expansion you inevitably get a constant force term (often zero) and a "mass on a spring" term.

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