[RightWhale]

The accelerating expansion is a good thing for physicists because it is producing a huge amount of fresh theoretical work. It's a bonanza for young cosmologists, and perhaps something useful in an engineering sense will come of it. One thing for sure: none of the explanations so far are satisfactory. Whether some garage mechanic in Hungary will come up with the right answer and create a practical application remains to be seen.

[ckilmer]

The accelerating expansion is a good thing for physicists because it is producing a huge amount of fresh theoretical work. It's a bonanza for young cosmologists, and perhaps something useful in an engineering sense will come of it.
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What this is--is a precurser to a paradigm shift. That is the way we understand things in the not too distant future is going to shift radically as it did for Newton and Einstein. What the accelerating expansion means is that the force of gravity that we know--is drop in a very big ocean--made of something else.

so who knows. anyone brave enough to tackle the subject should at least be given rope.... let time tell whether they lasso the cosmos or their own necks.