Not exact matches
If the
expansion continues to
accelerate, then in 100 billion years, the gap between galaxies will be growing so fast that light from distant galaxies will
no longer reach us.
The
expansion is perhaps a type of «start» of the universe as we
know it but again, there is no evidence suggesting causal agency in the existence of that singularity or the transition into the
accelerating expansion.
I'm not a physicist, but to my knowledge, what we
know is that the
accelerating expansion of the universe can be reasonably traced back to a singularity.
[5][6] The theory could potentially explain why a mysterious repulsive form of energy
known as the «cosmological constant», and which is
accelerating the
expansion of the universe, is several orders of magnitude smaller than predicted by the standard Big Bang model.»
LinCA Ok, I am not a physicist or mathematician so I really do not
know how they established the odds of fine tuning of Dark Energy (exact amount of force that produced a rapid enough
expansion at the point of singularity to avoid gravitational collapse of our universe yet
accelerate the
expansion again resulting in our universe) to be 10 to the power of 97!
This dark energy, as it is
known, exerts an antigravitational impulse that appears to be causing the
expansion of the universe to
accelerate.
In 1998 two teams of researchers made a milestone cosmological announcement: The universe, long
known to be expanding, was not slowing down in its
expansion as expected but was in fact
accelerating.
The reason cosmologists
know that the universe's
expansion is
accelerating is that sources that are the farthest away are less redshifted than expected, given how long the light has been traveling.
Contrary to all expectations, the universe's
expansion is apparently
accelerating, so the inwards gravitational tug of both normal and dark matter is being trumped by the effect of another substance so exotic no one
knows for certain what it might be.
What's more, we
know that the
expansion of our universe is
accelerating, and the standard view is that mysterious dark energy is responsible.
And, you
know, one of the best ways to track dark energy, which is the force that's causing the
expansion of the universe to
accelerate, is to see how far spread apart things are in the distant universe, to see how fast the universe is pulling apart.
We now
know that the
expansion is
accelerating and that whatever caused the acceleration (dubbed «dark energy») can not be Standard Model physics.»
ML: What we
know is that dark energy, which was discovered in 1998, seems to be responsible for the present
accelerating expansion of the universe.
If anyone wonders how stocks could go up since January of 2016 without the slightest hiccup or setback — nearly two full years of equanimity — they need to look
no further than the
accelerated pace of balance sheet
expansion in 2016 and 2017.