Wiltshire, D.L.2014-04-142014-04-142010Wiltshire, D.L. (2010) Gravitational energy as dark energy: Average observational quantities. Paris, France: Invisible Universe, 29 Jun-3 Jul 2009. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1241, 1182-1191.http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9102In the timescape scenario cosmic acceleration is understand as an apparent effect, due to gravitational energy gradients that grow when spatial curvature gradients become significant with the nonlinear growth of cosmic structure. This affects the calibratation of local geometry to the solutions of the volume–average evolution equations corrected by backreaction. In this paper I discuss recent work on defining observational tests for average geometric quantities which can distinguish the timescape model from a cosmological constant or other models of dark energy.endark energycosmological constanttheoretical cosmologyobservational cosmologyConference Contributions - PublishedFields of Research::51 - Physical sciences::5101 - Astronomical sciences::510103 - Cosmology and extragalactic astronomyhttps://doi.org/10.1063/1.3462616