[edwin hubble]

Dark Energy ping.

I was reading today about the decade when Wrenn, Hooke and Halley were wrestling with the problem of describing paths of comets and planets. Kepler's third law was known, and it appeared to them that some sort of inverse-square force was at work. They had no real sense of gravity as we know it.

This was the scene just before Newton focused on the problem.

It seems that's about where we are now with the 'dark energy'
force.

[PatrickHenry]

Cosmology ping.

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