“The universe is expanding, and faster now than it did in the past. Scientists don't know why, but the leading explanation is that the universe contains something that has a repulsive gravitational effect - it pushes the universe apart instead of pulling it back together. This phenomenon is called dark energy.”
- NASA, image by the Euclid European #Space Agency telescope ✨
SFborn1940
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Perhaps the universe is expanding in our area of view but contracting somewhere else, far out of our view.
In any event, the universe is behaving as it should and we really do not know enough to do anything but make up stuff about it.
Paul Giulan
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The splitting of the atom has changed everything save our mode of thinking, and thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe… We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
— Albert Einstein
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reiterator
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Mr. Completely
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •"or, we've biffed a bit of math or observation somewhere along the extremely long chain of reasoning it takes to get to this conclusion."
But, the universe is certainly mighty weird, and is under no obligation to be sensible
Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •I want to know *all the things* ✨