Dark Energy Confirmed

bill_mcgonigle writes "By correlating the results of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, astronomers have confirmed the existence of dark energy. While gravity attracts, dark energy repels, so by comparing the positions of millions of galaxies and their red-shifts with the temperature map of the early universe, evidence was found for dark energy on the scale of 100 million light years. "Dark energy, whatever it is, is something that is not attracted by gravity" said David Spergel, a Princeton University cosmologist and a member of the WMAP science team. "We are finding that most of the stuff in our universe is abnormal in that it is gravitationally repulsive rather than gravitationally attractive," said Albert Stebbins of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, a switch that happened about 6.3 billion years ago, before which the expansion was decelerating."

Comments

Re:The science is on their side

[Noren]

You ought to get your science from scientific journals, not pop-culture paper infotainment. Say, perhaps, Nature.

Put down that newspaper and read some actual science.

Re:Occam's razor

[digiplant]

The fact remains that your ideas are very silly and are due to a lack of education in the subject of physics. Me, that's my career.