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Einstein was right all along: the future is dark
- hartror 15y agoThe astronomy department at Swinburne that did this research do excellent public lectures every month covering topics such as these in depth by the scientists doing the research. http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/outreach/?topic=freelectures http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/outreach/?topic=freelectures
- Udo 15y agoThis article is misleading in a couple of ways. First, Einstein favored a static universe. He also really hated the very idea of a cosmological constant, but it was needed for the whole model to make sense. In retrospect it was a classical example of someone not accepting what the math was telling him, on account of personal prejudice. Second, the article makes it sound like cosmic expansion is a new observation and that it somehow vindicates Einstein. In fact, we've been using red shift-based calculations for a very long time to reliably determine very large distances. And contrary to what the article says, matter is not "pushed" apart. That's not how cosmic expansion works. New space is being created all around us, all the time. It's just like all cosmic distances are continually scaled up. There is no inertia involved, and that's also the reason why some day parts of the universe will be able to recede from us faster than the speed of light.