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Comment on "Dark Energy from Time Crystals"

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-03-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It was recently proposed (arxiv:2502.08887) that the time crystal Lagrangian introduced by Shapere and Wilczek in 2012 could be a model of dark energy. I point out that the model has an instability that drives its energy density to negative values, which may render it unsuitable as a model of dark energy.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2502.19448,
  title  = {Comment on "Dark Energy from Time Crystals"},
  author = {James M. Cline},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.19448},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 figure; comment on arxiv:2502.08887. v2: added reference to stability criteria

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