The “Phantom” Force1

Crossing the phantom divide

We consider fluid perturbations close to the ‘‘phantom divide’’ characterized by p and discuss the conditions under which divergencies in the perturbations can be avoided. We find that the behavior of the perturbations depends crucially on the prescription for the pressure perturbation p. The pressure perturbation is usually defined using the dark energy rest-frame, but we show that this frame ...

The Phantom Herd

The phantom of transparency

I will discuss the status of the implicit and the explicit in science, mostly in logic1. I will especially denunciate, expose a deep and pregnant unsaid of scientific activity : the subliminal idea that, beyond immediate perception, could exist a world, a layer of reading, completely intelligible, i.e., explicit and immediate. What I will call the fantasy (or phantom, as a matter of joke) of tr...

The phantom limb.

Phantom appearance of non-phantom matter

Two cosmological models with non-phantom matter having the same expansion of the universe as phantom cosmologies are constructed. The first model is characterized by the evolving gravitational “constant” G and a dark energy component with a non-conserved energy-momentum tensor. The second model includes two interacting components, the dark energy component and the matter component. Closed form ...