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Echoes Hint At Accelerating Universe Expansion

Posted by timothy on from the say-that-12-times-quickly dept.

cr0kin0le writes "400,000 years after the Big Bang, oscillations between gravitationally contracting matter and outward radiation pressure left newly discovered acoustic echoes. Independent teams from U. of Arizona and U. of Durham, England have found circular ripples with wavelengths of 500 million light-years which indirectly imply that universal expansion is accelerating due to dark energy."

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  1. Acoustic Echos? by Ignominious+Cow+Herd · · Score: 4, Funny

    God: Hello!

    [400,000 years later]

    Universe: Hello, hello, lo, lo, lo, o...

    (or was that Eddies in the time-space continuum?)

    --
    Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
    1. Re:Acoustic Echos? by lazy+genes · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just because our God takes 20.7 billion year vacations ?

  2. Re:someone remind me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dark matter is what Dark Jedi are made of, and Dark Energy powers their Dark Sabers.