[RightWhale]

did you wish to comment on something about the Hubble Telescope?

[ckilmer]

What the telescope is showing is that in the universe there is something out there that is accelerating the spread of the galaxies. Its something different than gravity as we know it.
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Until a few years ago, it was the conventional wisdom that the expansion of the universe that began with the big bang was slowing down. Dr. Ed Weiler, the head of science for NASA and the person in charge of the Hubble, says that in fact, it's speeding up. "It means that we don't understand gravity," he says. "This implies there's some negative energy force, some anti-gravity, that's actually pushing things apart. We don't understand it. It's not supposed to be there." He says it's something that wasn't known before Hubble.