Was Einstein right when he said he was wrong?

PhysOrg.com ^ | 16 March 2005 | Staff

[PatrickHenry]

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[PatrickHenry]

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[Borges]

The universe is expanding.
...What is that your business!

[razoroccam]

Ripples, believe it or not.

[GSlob]

"...relies on the so-called inflationary theory, born in 1981..."
Of course, formulated just after Carter inflation. But hasn't Paul Volker disproved it?

[VadeRetro]

Proposals to name the phenomenon the "Pagan Pink Ripple" effect are still under consideration.

[RightWhale]

Einstein was one of the three greatest thinkers of the 20th century. The list could be expanded a little by adding Heidegger. Einstein, Heisenberg, Goedel, Heidegger. Two of them Nazis. The other two fleeing Nazism.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Conspiracy Guy]

This expansion must be stopped. It's for the children.

[mad puppy]

"...the ripples of spacetime generated during the epoch of inflation" are clearly the fault of G. W. Bush.

[bvw]

Do you think this might have something to do with what we humans -- being at the center of the Universe as we are -- are able to observe? That is, that as we observe more widely and in detail that provokes certain changes in the very physics of the Universe?

[bigsigh]

I thought I'd made a mistake last year, but I was wrong.

[Red Badger]

Ripples, believe it or not.

As long as it's not ruffles I'll go along with it. But, I steadfastly refuse to live in a universe that has ruffles or fringes........Pleats are okay, though.....

[Lee Heggy]

Whatever the universe is expanding into must therefore be getting smaller not that it helps the situation here any....

[Physicist]

Data from upcoming experiments will allow cosmologists to test the proposal.

That's what I like to hear.

My pet idea is that the "big rip" that destroys the universe simply serves as the inflationary phase of the universe that follows it.

[DannyTN]

"If dark energy were the size that theories predict, the universe would have expanded with such a fantastic velocity that it would have prevented the existence of everything we know in our cosmos."

If only the evolutionary sciences were as honest as astrophysics in acknowledging areas where they don't have a clue.

Meanwhile, that expansion either occurred in the past or continues to occur is not too much of a surprise...

Isaiah 44:24 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

Isaiah 45:12 - I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Isaiah 51:13 - And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

[razoroccam]

How about ruffles that have ridges in them?

[BenLurkin]

Women and minorities hardest hit.

[VadeRetro]

Meanwhile, that expansion either occurred in the past or continues to occur is not too much of a surprise...

Why do I suspect that if the 1998 observations had shown the expansion of the universe slowing down, you'd have a Bible verse or two predicting that? If the observations had shown a contraction, that would have been OK too. There's something in there, somewhere.

[PatrickHenry]

There's something in there, somewhere.

If all of science is already in there, you'd expect them to be a bit more welcoming to our belated discovery of what they say they've always known.