Einstein's Biggest Blunder That Wasn't

jose parinas writes "The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his equation for the expansion of the universe but later retracted it, may be vindicated by new research. The enigmatic "dark energy" that drives the acceleration of the Universe behaves just like Einstein's famed cosmological constant, according to the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). Their observations reveal that the dark energy behaves like Einstein's cosmological constant to a precision of 10%."

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Come back Einstein

[Centurix]

All is forgiven!

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[doublestakk]

You know its good stuff.

Re:I can't take it... (grammar nazi alert)

[Tatarize]

"The inclusion of this vacuum energy term can greatly effect cosmological theories."

You grammar people are always doing such things. Sure 'affect' makes sense in this sentence. But, he meant to use 'effect'. The inclusion of the term is going to greatly cause cosmological theories to come into being. What's wrong with that?

I hope this post effects thoughts in your head.

Heh. I tend to dislike the further/farther mess up a lot, because quite often with the metaphor of progress to distance a relative constant there's no gramamr policing going on.

Re:Dark matter ...

[endoplasmicMessenger]

It's amazing how we can have a rational, civilized discussion about various hypotheses in astromony here on Slashdot, but the same is not possible with respect to evolution. I suppose these astronomical hypotheses don't challege people's fundamental world views, but they do when discussing evolution. This would explain the incredible emotional knee-jerk reactions when even mentioning evolution.