[garbagecoder]

There are lots of plausible explanations for why some of our observations don't match GR predictions. It's been a long time since I studied this stuff so I'm pretty sure I'm way out of date, but dark energy still seems like epicycles to me and I'm not sure it's the Occam's razor explanation either. No, we don't want to abandon GR, but we know it's not the complete theory, and a lot of this stuff might make perfect sense if we have a theory of quantum gravity.

I'm fine with wild speculations like there are new universes inside blackholes that look like white holes to the people inside (or "Big Bangs") and I love to think about all of it, and higher dimensions, and all of that, but I'm just a nerd. I'm not putting it in a journal or a press release or trying to justify funding on the basis of it.