The second version of the Mass Effect video games – the Mass Effect 2, which hits the stores January 26 - is incorporated with the concept of ‘dark energy;’ allowing the “biotic” humans to exploit the inexplicable yet all-encompassing force which supposedly speeds the expansion of the universe.

By harnessing dark energy, the players of the Mass Effect 2 can not only obstruct bullets and launch adversaries, but can also create tiny gravitational vortices within minutes, thanks to their imaginative thoughts!

Noting that the dark energy portrayed in Mass Effect 2 is not quite the same as “real” dark energy that the scientists are studying, Sean Carroll – a physicist at the California Institute of Technology – said Bioware has used the dark energy concept in its game’s intricately-created cyber universe in such a way that would not offend the scientists.

Carroll elaborated that though there is “a small amount of dark energy in every cubic centimeter of the universe”, it still is not as powerful as the game depicts it to be.

Commenting that the incorporation of the dark energy concept into Mass Effect 2 is “not completely implausible,” astrophysicist Tamara Davis, an associate of the Dark Cosmology Center in Denmark, remarked: “To the best of our knowledge, dark energy is everywhere. We do think it would change slightly in the presence of matter, but we don't know how.”