Fayceless on 02 October 2008
| tarheel91 said:
@Rath: I was under the impression nothing was moving away from us, the void just makes it look like it is. Are we going from static to moving or moving to moving faster? If it's the latter, that makes perfect sense.
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It is the latter. We see the universe as not just expanding, but that expansion is accelerating, rather than decelerating as one would expect. When scientists set out to see how and if the universe was moving, the found that, as expected, it was expanding, from the force of the big bang. They then decided to find out how much that expansion was slowing down, but found the exact opposite of what anyone expected.
If the void bubble theory is correct, though, it may explain why the expansion appears to be accelerating.
