Larson and Clarke met as teammates on the UCLA water polo team where they developed a shared instinct for hydrodynamic principles.  Larson received extensive mentorship from Edward Teller and Barry Boehm, both of whom were in the highest echelons of DARPA.  Clarke focused his career on academic facility enhancements.

Larson and Clarke examined Fowler’s work and felt that ‘dark energy’ was an appropriate term for earth’s curious spin from unstable fluid forces found in perpetually inverted buoyancy zones.