It has been further confirmed that the universe is expanding with a uniform acceleration. But surely dark energy is still just as dark as it ever was. Credit: Swinburne/NASA/JPL-Caltech.
The recent WiggleZ galaxy survey data further confirming that the universe is expanding with a uniform acceleration prompted a lot of ?astronomers confirm dark energy? headlines and a lot of heavy sighs from those preferring not to have the universe described in ten words or less.
I mean how the heck did ?dark energy? ever become shorthand for ?the universe is expanding with a uniform acceleration??(...)
Read the rest of Astronomy Without A Telescope – Enough With The Dark Already (652 words)
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