Can We Outrun Dark Energy In The Race To See The Universe?

For the first 7.8 billion years, the Universe unfolded exactly as scientists would have expected in the aftermath of the Big Bang. The Universe started off expanding at a tremendously rapid rate, while the gravitational influence of all the matter and energy worked to slow that expansion down. In many ways, the expanding Universe was a race between these two contenders: the initial expansion, which drives the material in the Universe apart, and gravitation, which works to pull everything back together. The Universe was a race, and the Big Bang was a starting gun.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Can We Outrun Dark Energy In The Race To See The Universe?

For the first 7.8 billion years, the Universe unfolded exactly as scientists would have expected in the aftermath of the Big Bang. The Universe started off expanding at a tremendously rapid rate, while the gravitational influence of all the matter and energy worked to slow that expansion down. In many ways, the expanding Universe was a race between these two contenders: the initial expansion, which drives the material in the Universe apart, and gravitation, which works to pull everything back together. The Universe was a race, and the Big Bang was a starting gun.

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This ties back to the Hubble Constant thread. Remember, km/s/Gpa.

And the following ties back in with the “12 ways humanity could destroy the entire solar system” thread.

> Sick of being limited by the speed of light in your attempts to journey through the Universe? Aren’t we all. Well, the idea of Star Trek’s “Warp Drive” might still be science fiction, but there’s a real-life scientific possibility of making it a reality: the Alcubierre drive.