Dark energy is the term for the causative agent of the current epoch of accelerated expansion. This stuff must have negative pressure, with magnitude comparable to its energy density, in order to produce accelerated expansion
Further, since this mysterious stuff does not show its presence in galaxies and clusters of galaxies, it must be relatively smoothly distributed. That being said, dark energy has the following generally recognized properties: (1) it emits no light; (2) it has large, negative pressure, and (3) it is approximately homogeneous. (more precisely, does not cluster significantly with matter on scales at least as large as clusters of galaxies). Because its pressure is comparable in magnitude to its energy density, it is more “energy-like" than “matter-like" LENR can satisfy each of these Dark Energy properties. All the energy produced by LENR is eventually converted to magnetic force. Magnetism will stiffen space time and effectively counteracts gravity. If gravity increases with space/time curvature, straightening that curvature will weaken gravity. Since all the energy produce by LENR is converted to magnetism, its energy density is equal to its pressure If a LENR based BEC is formed over cosmological distance scales, the LENR entanglement will produce superfludity that operates instantaneously within another dimension (the fifth) to keep the forces produced by LENR homogeneous over space/time and evenly spread out over cosmological distances. It has been said that the sum total of progress in understanding the acceleration of the universe is naming the causative agent. If LENR is that causative agent, then science better wake up to its awesome power.
