[Red Badger]

The Universe is expanding faster that they thought.

But what is it expanding into?..................

[Larry Lucido]

The universe is too big. We’re going to run out of space!

[woweeitsme]

Only God Almighty knows...

[Bob434]

hubble hubble toil and trouble

[Jonty30]

When they did their calculations, they forgot to carry the two.

[xp38]

Job 38: 1-7
Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:

2 “Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

[faucetman]

THOUSANDS of years, not billions and billions and billions.

[bert]

Given the extent of galaxies and other structures plainly visible in the universe with the Web telescope, the issue of expansion is not really relevant any more.

The concept of the red shift becomes meaninglessly irrelevant given the now visible an infinite number of galaxies containing infinity to the infinity power of stars.

[cockroach_magoo]

Is it okay to question the science now?

I must have missed the memo.

[wbarmy]

Universe is expanding 76.5 kilometers per second faster every 3.26 million light-years.

And this is where the stupid comes up in my mind. How is the "universe" still accelerating from th Big Bang? I understand the energy involved pushed it very hard and fast in the beginning, but it had to achieve a constant rate at some point. Nothing can accelerate unless it is being given energy from somehwere.

[FLT-bird]

Here’s a hint. When they have to insert not one but TWO placeholders to try to explain away observations that do not match the theoretical models (Dark Matter and Dark Energy), it means they don’t understand things very well.

I have a radical new theory. Maybe Dark Matter and Dark Energy don’t exist. We just haven’t figured it all out WRT the laws of physics. If your theory is correct, it doesn’t get holes punched in it constantly. This marks failure/lack of understanding #3.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I remember that at its peak, Hubble was changing what we knew about space so often that astrophysicists couldn’t write textbooks for fear that they would be outdated as soon as they were published.

And then there is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is designed to observe the universe in infrared light, which showed that changing the bandwidth changed everything.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

All the more important to hold in cow farts and to stop exhaling.

“You’re expanding things!”

[dfwgator]

A quantum leap forward in time and space
The universe learned to expand
Mess and magic, triumphant and tragic
A mechanized world out of hand

[SuperLuminal]

Does this mean that we can expect the ocean-levels to radically drop, any day now?

How soon before our ICBMs will not be able to reach China, Russia, EU, or North Korea?

[thepoodlebites]

DComa = 98.5 ± 2.2 Mpc
H0 = 76.5 ± 2.2 km s−1 Mpc−1
—
Model says: H0 = 67.4 km s−1 Mpc−1
Let’s go with the model because observations are so boring.

Seriously, maybe the theory of Inflation needs an adjustment. We know dark matter exists because of its influence on the rotation rate of galaxies. BAO measurements confirmed the 1998 1a supernovae study, that the expansion of the universe is accelerating into a void where space and time does not yet exist.
Dark matter was the scaffolding upon which a vast network of galaxy clusters emerged. A Sloan mapping of the universe reveals the mind of God. Our knowledge of the universe will always be incomplete.