Cosmology has most recently come to the scientific opinion that the Universe consists chiefly of something called dark matter and dark energy. This convention has been deemed necessary in order to explain the motion of the stars and galaxies detected from astronomical investigations. Scientists coined the terms "dark" while it would be more properly described as being transparent or invisible (perhaps because it is keeping them in the dark?). Currently neither dark factor is directly detectable by any of our instruments but are inferred as necessary to the mathematical calculations of how much mass and energy is required for the observed motions throughout the universe that we are fairly confident of via direct detection.
Thus dark matter and energy describes a "place holder" for unknown factors that we know exist and this tells us that as much as 95% of our known universe consists of something that is currently unknown and possibly unknowable. The corollary to this is that the known universe (that which we can directly detect) is very much a case of the exception as opposed to the rule. So what is it that we can't "see"?
The actual effects of dark matter and energy are best realized in the scope of far distant investigations and their observed effects do appear become ever stronger with increasing distance which leads to the Expansion of space , an accelerating expansion of space as we think we know it to speeds even beyond that of light. Such observations into deep space, it must be noted, also represent vast amounts time (billions of years into the past) as well as distance (see Spacetime) whereby potential incident areas and time of exposure to many various factors and thus opportunities for changes having been made to the remaining result of any original causation which we are investigating must be noted. It is thus a "well used" universe that we can witness anywhere and an increasingly "worn out" one at the far reaches of investigation.
Most if not all of this cosmological science is concerned with the investigation of electromagnetic waves and Gravity for which the waves themselves are subject to various known changes as they travel through space and time such as described by Redshift or blue shift indicating relative motion and gravitational redshift being the effect that gravity has on the waves. But perhaps more difficult to ascertain are the long range effects of Interference (wave propagation) of the various electromagnetic data which actually reaches us whereby (considering the infinite nature of the Universe) light and all other such forms of radiation possibly inclusive of gravity, may be expected to become increasingly subject to factors such as multi-path propagation, Multipath interference, shadowing and other generally well recognized complications of wave propagation in recognition of the superposition principle.
Astronomical interferometer techniques may be utilized to either increase or decrease what can be detected in space. In the case of our looking for planets around distant stars the object is to reduce the interference of the star's own light utilizing phase shifting towards the negative (inducing an increased amount of optical interference) in the hopes of detecting a much lesser light being reflected by a dark body/planet which is orbiting the star. In recent practice this is actually being done utilizing an array of orbital telescopes to use starlight against starlight, one against the other to give the resulting darkness required ( ><=0). Both weak and strong gravitational lensing come into play with increasing distances of investigation and such is utilized for the positive image enforcement it offers on targets far beyond such a gravitational lens. To what extent can the net result of any observed waveforms that we can now detect be made subject to some form of Fourier analysis across perhaps billions of light years exposure to both positive and negative incidence opportunities when such a waveform has been subjected to numerous possible causes of phase shifting (possibly to darkness) or other anticipated degradations long before it reaches us? Perhaps the more important question would be why can we can still obtain seemingly clear information on only a certain few distant galaxies which perhaps represents just 5% of the existing total while everything else (the dark 95%) has definitely gone missing?
Could such an analysis reconstruct our universe and tell us where all energy and matter that we are now missing went to and is there any chance that what we call outer space is more complicated than we suspect? We know that it is by no means "empty" with regards to electromagnetism and gravity but does the universe manage to increasingly null out most of the actual electromagnetic signatures (which is really all that we have to work with) from most of our current means of direct detection over the increasingly long distances from the stars to our observation point here on Earth? Is what we see simply the "lucky light" that managed to make it through to us?
In considering the offered term "Cosmic Conflux" as per the title hereto it would seem that all points in the vast universe inclusive of Earth are omnidirectionally bombarded through space and time (at least from some point of perceived "beginning") with a full range of electromagnetic waves, the net results of which are to all purposes hereto fully representative of our observable universe. Such "empty" space that exists between all matter may be collectively accounted for as Vacuum energy which might be considered a misnomer for what the average person generally considers a vacuum to be but the term represents the means for a scientific accounting of that which space itself actually consists of as opposed to being assumed as nothing at all.
Assumptions of how collective vacuum energy might affect deep space observations may range from it being nulled out altogether to it being regarded as infinite from a mathematical if not pragmatic standpoint. "Using the upper limit of the cosmological constant, the vacuum energy in a cubic centimeter of free space has been estimated to be 10-15 Joules.[1] However, in both Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) and Stochastic Electrodynamics (SED), consistency with the principle of Lorentz invariance and with the magnitude of the Planck Constant requires it to have a much larger value of 10107 Joules per cubic centimeter.[2][3]". (Such spread explains the magnitude of the problems we are dealing with.)
The perceived emptiness of vast distances of outer space notwithstanding, the electromagnetic intelligence available from both waveform and energy levels continues to diminish over increasing distances regardless of how magnificent it all might have been at the start of its journey, that is except perhaps for being lucky.
Further reading:
Optics basics: Coherence | Skulls in the Stars
