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capsaicinintheeyes t1_ithlq9y wrote

All of our lives have been & will be spent within the flowering of a single, slow-moving explosion

^({EDIT} so wait: this article doesn't clarify the expansion speed of the universe...it clarifies that we're even shakier on what it is than had previously been reported!)

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void_warp t1_itk0bm2 wrote

to reply to your edit: yeah it was kind of disappointing! i was hoping we found a new lamda

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iqisoverrated t1_itkfv44 wrote

Sigh...expansion. Not explosion. The two are very different concepts.

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capsaicinintheeyes t1_itkle1z wrote

Let's you and me take a big rip & not inflate the role of my bit of poetic license here, even if the impulse is a universal constant--I'm sure two absolute astronomical units like ourselves can ^(...ah, fuck, I'm running out of layman astrophysics puns...)

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