[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The timescale is off (as the universe is only some 6,000 years old, Earth-time), but an interesting article.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

dark energy ping.

[KevinDavis]

[Onelifetogive]

Dark energy makes up about 70% of the Universe; the rest is dark matter (25%) and normal matter (5%).

This statement can be interpreted as: "We ain't got the first effin' clue!"

I sounds more like Medieval "Scientists" trying to explain disease.

[Candor7]

Luke , Come over to the DARK SIDE!

But the 5% intractable force of light will always prevail:

[SunkenCiv]

alas...

Scientists Examine 'Dark Energy' of Antigravity
New York Times | November 16, 2006 | Dennis Overbye
Posted on 11/16/2006 7:27:32 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1739970/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[GoLightly]

Dark energy the same thing that's been detected in absolute vacuums?

[norton]

" Dark energy - the mysterious force that is speeding up the expansion of the Universe - has been a part of space for at least nine billion years.
That is the conclusion of astronomers who presented results from a three-year study using the Hubble Space Telescope."

Sorry.
But it seems that any rational person would intuit that one of the basic elements of the universe had been around approximately as long as the universe.
They needed a telescope??

[RightWhale]

What is this ‘dark flow’ that is drifting 2 million mph? The is 0.003 c.