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Re: The Big Bang's Fall From Grace - 10-27-2007, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by RascalPuff View Post
"In the late '90s, more observations showed that the universe was actually accelerating in its expansion. Now, the standard theory of GR did not account for this, but theorists found that, by putting a constant back in the equations for this expanding universe in terms of GR, the acceleration of the expansion of the universe could indeed be modelled."
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An accelerating universe is not corroborate with a big bang beginning.
Why not?
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Moreover, the 'original explosion' has been 'adusted' to an expanding universe with no center, which is what the Cosmo Constant - the opposite vector of impelling gravity - entails; this includes the unexpectedly discovered acceleration of the expansion.
I don't understand this. What do you mean by "the original explosion has been adjusted to an expanding universe?" The standard big bang theory that we speak of today never talks of explosion from a point, and never talks of a centre of the universe.
  
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