[U-238]

Ping

[Crucial]

There are far more black holes out there that have been discovered than previously believed and it’s only the tip of the iceberg. It’s not dark matter. It’s compressed, nearly invisible matter, shrouded by a multitude of event horizons.

[ETL]

Under his General Relativity theory, the universe should eventually collapse (under gravity). So he concocted the notion of an “accelerating” force to keep it static/stationary as scientists thought it was at the time. This was before Hubble and Co discovered that the universe was expanding, or in a state of “infinite deceleration” (prior to the comparatively recent discovery that the universe was/is actually accelerating in its expansion).

[Lancey Howard]

...mapping the universe as it existed roughly 6 billion years ago, when it was only 63 percent of its current size.

So, "universe" is defined as only a large cluster of stars? And the "size" of the universe is only everything between the two stars (that we can observe) most distant from each other? Huh.. When I think of "universe" I think of infinity. That is, not only the stars, but everything beyond the stars. I mean, who's to say there isn't another cluster of stars equal to or greater than all the stars we can observe from earth, a trillion-to-the-trillionth-power-to-the-trillionth-power-to-the-trillionth power light years away?

What would that be? A separate "universe"?

[tet68]

Scientists have known for a while about why the
universe is expanding.....it’s trying to get away
from Chuck Norris.

[The Cajun]

Wonder if as you approach the edge (oldest) part of the observable universe, the Higgs field/boson is weakening causing particle mass to slightly decrease, the gravity well effect in that part of space to slightly decrease, resulting in outward acceleration.

[rurgan]

This just seems to be beyond the comprehension of “science” and of scientists.

[allmost]

Einstein is mostly right.

[bd476]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

More accurately, Fr. Georges Lemaitre, S.J. was correct.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1945606/posts

[varmintman]

Bullshit. All of this fantasy science, including dark energy, dark matter, and the "Expanding Universe(TM)", is going away. The ONLY piece of real evidence which anybody ever had any halfway rational reason to interpret as an expanding universe is cosmic redshift and Halton Arp has shown that to require another explanation since you have numerous examples of high and low redshift objects which are clearly parts and parcels of the same things, e.g.

[samtheman]

Thanks for posting this.