[Henchster]

"Expansion of the Universe."

Now, only an over-funded scientist could come up with a silly statement like that, if it's infinite, it can't "expand," and if it's expanding, what is it expanding into?

[linear]

Cool.

There are so many questions about this, if you think about it in terms of Relativity.

[longshadow]

accelerating Cosmological expansion bttt

[Lokibob]

If you are in a space ship traveling at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens?

[skateman]

"Damn it Scottie, I said expound on the universe, not expand it."

[concerned about politics]

"There will be signs in the Sun, the moon, and the stars...."

BTW, scientists say the Sun is cooling, so how can the Globe be warming?

[week 71]

"eventually the universe will accelerate so rapidly the more distant galaxies we can see today will move away faster than the speed of light and will disappear over the horizon."

I know some of the physics euridites on FR might understand how this is possible, but I thought c was the upper limit in speed, save gravity, which is a force and quantum events.

[Consort]

It might have something to do with that inverse square thing. It also sounds like a giant balloon that's getting ready to burst -- that's it! -- the universe is going into burst mode. And, if it goes faster than light, wouldn't it be dark all the time? Or, is that the definition of Dark Matter.

Does anyone know where to buy faster-than-light bulbs?

[lepton]

The expansion of the universe, which began about 15 billon years ago with the Big Bang,

Any clue yet as to what to do about the 20 Billion year old stars?

[Delbert]

BIG BANG? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING.

GOD

[Frapster]

so - if we have some method of knowing that the universe is expanding then I would guess that we have some notion as to the general shape of the universe and it's center? can someone show me a pic of what it looks like? Does it look like a moose with cheeze in the center?

[laotzu]

"admitted they did not have a clue...We don't understand...were debating...universe was to blame...It was a huge surprise...was "shaking his head"...you have to rearrange the mental furniture"

Tell me again about global warming... is the sky really falling?

[OldFriend]

No doubt Albore can explain this perfectly, since he invented the universe.

[Musketeer]

Upon reading this article I had a sudden sense that we are just an element of God's fireworks display. Just after the initial detonating big bang (oooooohhh!) there is that beautiful spread of bright sparkling color (aaaaaaahhhhh!) which then expands, twinkles, and finally winks out.

Enjoy the view. :)

[dead]

It's really gonna suck, billions of years from now, when our descendents look up in the night sky and all the stars have moved away.

On the bright side, they'll all be long dead by that time, after the Sun's death throes, so they won't notice.

[InvisibleChurch]

I'll believe this when xlinton leaves us faster than the speed of light

[Mad Dawgg]

"While most galaxies would vanish from view, the Milky Way, and its nearest neighbours, glued together by gravity, would travel on alone."

hmmm the More important question is how does Cow Flatulence fit into this equation? I think the Cow Flatulence Theory on Global Warming is the most exciting scientific discovery since the "Chia Pet"...

[Williams]

I hope you all know that the scientists don't know what the heck they're talking about. Their ever changing assumptions about what is happening in a truly enormous universe are based on their base assumptions about what things like shifts in light spectra mean. You will note there is always some mysterious unexplained factor such as "dark energy" or "dark matter" that must exist to explain what they think their observations mean. Did you all know that beta carotene has been shown NOT to fight cancer and is now believed to enhance some cancers? How many years did scientists tell you the opposite?

[day10]

The expansion of the universe, which began about 15 billon years ago with the Big Bang

No it didn't. Sorry.

[LJLucido]

It's obvious, we need a universe-expansion tax on industrialized countries, whose emissions are contributing to the problem. Also, any new housing development must submit a universe-expansion impact statement prior to zoning approval.