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Old June 3rd 08, 02:58 PM posted to alt.astronomy
oldcoot
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Default accelerating universe conundrum, help me find my logic flawplease

On Jun 1, 4:53*am, "Painius" wrote:

Let's go on to the much newer premise of cosmology...
that the expansion of the Universe is "accelerating"... "accelerated
expansion of the Universe".. has been accepted by the
mainstream that the.. expansion is positive, it is
"speeding up"...

Which of course called forth the invention of "dark energy" to explain
the perceived "speeding up". Here's some of the mainstream's most
recent convoluted mishmash in search of "dark energy" --

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/sc...syahoo&emc=rss