Interestin. What Einstein once called "the greatest blunder of my life".. (his 'cosmological constant') ..is now being seriously looked at as the reason for the accelerating expansion.
Even when Einstein screw up he's the man.
Bones
One of God's favorite passtimes is to play eternal games with cosmologists. He is forever providing unfathomable data that destroys the neat theories we humans provide to explain the Infinite.
That would explain, at least; where Liberals came from. . .
I have decided to push my own notion that the universe has already reached its limit of expansion and has begun contracting again. The accelerated expansion that we're seeing as we look further out is simply the light from an earlier time, when the universe was expanding at a faster pace, that is just now reaching us. Since we are now in contraction, we're moving away from it even more rapidly, hence, the appearance of faster expansion the farther out one looks.
I am not a cosmologist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Suites... once.
I figure this is as good a plce as any to ask. This being a thread that would involve such thinkers and observers.
Hawkins Radiation. Any details aside from it escaping black holes?
The only "mystery" is how the Eurinals are going to blame Bush!
Ping. I thought this was kind of an interesting article, don't know if you have seen it.
Flatulence from cosmic cows. Dark matter/energy makes my head hurt.
A "compare later with article from last year, later" BUMP