I was going to sell implosion insurance.
Obligatory link... Quote:
The good news from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is that Einstein was right — maybe.
A strange form of energy called "dark energy" is looking a little more like the repulsive force that Einstein theorized in an attempt to balance the universe against its own gravity. Even if Einstein turns out to be wrong, the universe's dark energy probably won't destroy the universe any sooner than about 30 billion years from now, say Hubble researchers.
"Right now we're about twice as confident than before that Einstein's cosmological constant is real, or at least dark energy does not appear to be changing fast enough (if at all) to cause an end to the universe anytime soon," says Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore. |
More (obviously) at the above link.
02-24-2004, 10:18 PM
Linear Mode
