On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
*> Do us all a big favor and cease your BS'ing. Those articles below I > haven't read because they assert what I already knew; that two teams > discovered the universe was accelerating in 1998. Where is the EVIDENCE in > your claim above, that the rate of expansion was SLOWING from the time the > galaxies formed, for about 9 billion years? I don't recall any of your > posts where you stated or proved that. AG * > *The following quote is from Expansion of the universe <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe?utm_source=chatgpt.com> :* *"The very earliest expansion, called inflation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)> saw the universe suddenly expand by a factor of at least 1026 in every direction about 10−32 of a second after the Big Bang. Cosmic expansion subsequently decelerated to much slower rates, until around 9.8 billion years after the Big Bang (4 billion years ago) it began to gradually * *expand more quickly <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_expansion_of_the_universe>, and is still doing so." * *The following quote is from** Accelerating expansion of the universe <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_expansion_of_the_universe>:* *"The accelerated expansion of the universe is thought to have begun since the universe entered its dark-energy-dominated era <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-energy-dominated_era> roughly 5 billion years ago"* > > *> Dark Energy may or may not exist,* > > > *>Dark energy is the name we have given to whatever is accelerating the > universe, we had to call it something. The universe is definitely > accelerating so Dark Energy, whatever it is, definitely exists. * > > * >>> **if it does and is responsible for the speeding up, it doesn't > imply the galaxies were receding from each other slowly before DE speeded > the expansion.* > > > *>>Huh? If you make a thing move faster then you make it move faster. And > the great thing about tautologies is that they are ALWAYS true. * > > *>Obviously, you don't understand what I wrote,* > *True, but that's not the big question. Do you understand what you wrote? * > *> and it's certainly not a tautology. AG * > *If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's a duck. * * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* iad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2K4fWq1_BrJvEWA7kGMKbWQhH%2BCchawCKzr1fAjvySbw%40mail.gmail.com.
