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Relation binds not, create not bondage
Heart knots not, freedom is the pass word
Passion constricts heart, love is expansion
Sensuality surcharges passion, energy wastes in abundance
Senses are heightened, negative tendencies root in
(If)Same channeled inward, deepest borrows are revealed
Sense of righteousness prevails, conscious takes the reigns
Latent joy bursts, purpose of life achieved.
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The accelerating universe is the observation that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerated rate. In 1998 observations of Type Ia supernovae suggested that the expansion of the universe is speeding up.[1][2] In the past few years, these observations have been corroborated by several independent sources: the cosmic microwave background[citation needed], gravitational lensing[citation needed], age of the universe[citation needed] ...

"Science can never explain causes. It describes effects. I can take a book here and drop it. I can't tell you why it fell. I can't explain it. Nobody ever has. I can only describe how it fell."
- Dr. Arno Penzias, Nobel Laureate, on the Dick Cavett Show, 6 January, 1979.

"...is this such a simple law? What about the machinery of it? All we have done is to describe how the earth moves about the sun. But we have not said what makes it go. Newton made no hypothesis ...

As we shall see, the popular term 'Newtonian concept of attraction (a pulling force)', as applied to gravity, was never unconditionally endorsed by Newton. The concept of gravity as 'a pulling force of attraction' remains a speculative though understandably popular term, coined by Newton's beneficiaries. All of this is to say that the conceptualization of gravity as any sort of pulling force of attraction was not Newton's resolute conceptual or by any means exclusive definition of gravity. Allow ...

By neutralino on 11-06-2007, 04:35 PM
Re: Einstein's so-called 'Biggest Blunder' was right after all.

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I think the point attempting to be made above is that Einstein called the cosmological constant his "greatest ever blunder" because initially he put it into the field equations to ensure that they had a static solution (the universe was thought to be static at that time) but then ...