So, three physicists won the Nobel prize for demonstrating the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
Thus everything is getting further apart at an ever increasing rate.
From this I conclude it must be getting harder to get into heaven and at some point no matter how loud I shout nobody will hear me.
Would this also be a valid argument against a speeding ticket ? If the two points you were travelling between got further apart as you were travelling between them then your apparent speed would appear higher, officer.
Officer: Citizen, your speed is measured relative to the Earths surface..
Pretty cool either way, the increased expansion thing. In a closed univers obeying gravity you would expect a big bang to get pulled back by it's own gravity and return to its starting point, The Big Splat..
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The last thread that discussed the Universe was deemed lockable.. Is a tread on the Expansion of the Universe as offensive as the thread on the Origin of the Universe.. Lets find out!
The peace prize seems more political than the sciencey ones. As Side Show Bob pointed out while disputing the crime of attempted murder, "they don't hand out a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry!.. "
Anyway the credibility of the award does not deter the accomplishments of those recipients.. This is great work, and the discovery would be it's own reward. This is some serious sh!t.. (maybe these guys know the answer to Marks reverse spinning galaxies??)
My point was that judging people by one event or criteria is absurd. So barrack O is a piece of crap because there are the same number(or more) troops in Afgahnistan then when a Bush ran the show???. A bit harsh, Bush starts a war and Obama has to finish it, has the war escalated? has Obama established an exit stategy? NO NO NO NO he has failed because there are 17 more troops in Afghanistan than when he took over the job. Is that it? What about healthcare? the economy?What about Tax? NO NO, he's ****ed! Mother Teresa's an old slag, The UN are corrupt on ONE decision? Get real, the world is just a teensy weensy little bit more complicated than that and the idea that you can bag someone by one stroke of over simplicity is just nutty. I'm a really excellent person because I've got a white hat. GEEEEEEEEEEEEZ
