What do y'all think of the following:

 

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/dark-energy.html

Cool stuff

 

But here's an updated piece on Dark Matter from space.com

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/dark_matter_map_030718.html

I watched a program last night in which an astro physicist said that dark energy, which is different than matter, anti-matter, and dark matter, makes up 60% of the universe and that they know less of it than they do of dark matter...of which they know virtually nothing.

It's included so the equations work (which work under every other situation, before anyone gets shirty about 'faith'). If it doesn't exist, and is just made up, then it'll be gotten rid of in the future.