Hubble

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Hubble Pictures Too Crisp, Challenging Theories of Time and Space

Something is obviously missing. Galaxies dispersing at increasing rates of speed, way more gravity than visible mass accounts for, huge regions of void where there ought to be millions of galaxies, objects farther apart than they would be if they traveled at light speed... Inflationary theory would seem to indicate that space expanded at what amounts to faster than light speed, then slowed down and now its speeding up again. I think I like Bruce's explanation better.

Even if the big bang theory is accurate, it still doesn't explain where all this stuff came from or why it acts the way it does.

Sometimes I think we are missing a force that exists out there somewhere only a derivative of which is expressed in dimensions we are able to observe. Sort of like the vibration caused by thunder caused by lightning that may or may not ever touch the ground.

There's something else out there. Either right in front of us, or just beyond the edge of the universe. And the way things seem to work, forces exert until their energy supply gets used up. So where is the energy coming from and what happens when it expires? Dark matter? Dark energy? I doubt it - too convenient an explanation that exactly explains that which is otherwise unexplainable - a mere placeholder for what's really going on.