Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe

World-renowned astronomer and prize-winning professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, Alex Filippenko, explores some of the mysteries of the universe at a special lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Filippenko discusses observations of very distant exploding starts called super-novae that provide intriguing evidence that the expansion of the universe is now speeding up. Over the largest scales of space, the universe seems to be dominated by a repulsive "dark energy" of unknown origin, stretching the very fabric of space itself faster and faster with time. Series: "Voices" [1/2008] [Science] [Show ID: 13184]

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[randy95023]

Interesting lecture. I've always enjoyed Alex's viewpoint of the Universe. Reading the comments bothers me a bit because I see the "Religious vs Science" people out in force. I'm a Christian AND a Science Buff and I hate seeing the Religious debate. I just figure that no matter what Science discovers it just finds out how God made it happen. Einstein called the Universe "the garden" and God the "Gardener". Einstein said he just wanted to catch a glimpse of "The Gardener" at work...

[thetrollking126]

They have mass so their gravitational pull handles it, just like our sun, earth, and our moon. Just because you don't know something, it doesn't mean you should throw you hands up in the air, give up on trying to understand it, and spew ignorant garbage. I don't have enough faith to be an astronomer.

[jon flores]

hahaaaaa... kill yourself, freak!

[randy95023]

An Agnostic that fully believed in a Creator... Einstein didn't believe in a God like the Christians, or Allah like the Muslims. He DID believe in a Creator that created the universe. (Look it up...)

[Mohamedisapedophile]

Have you asked yourself WHY that is?

I think you'll find that the more you know, the less religion makes any sense whatsoever. Like making day and night before the Sun.

And by the way, Einstein was agnostic.

Look it up: en dot wikipedia dotorg /wiki/Religious_views_of_Alber­t_Einstein

[thetrollking126]

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Saying that dark matter/black holes exist is a mathematically sound as saying god exists. Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean you should diarrhea out the mouth and claim it's fact.

[Kyle D]

the mass of all the stars in the galaxy AND all the extra gas clouds is not nearly enough. just like electrons do not interact with the strong force, dark matter does not interact with the electromagnetic force

[thetrollking126]

trololol. u mad bro?

[Johnny Hateroff]

Fuck you idiot! ;(

[Johnny Hateroff]

Fuck you idiot! ;(

[Johnny Hateroff]

Fuck you idiot! ;(

[Johnny Hateroff]

Fuck you idiot! ;(