Comments on: Abstract Horror (Note-2) http://www.xenosystems.net/abstract-horror-note-2/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Aeroguy http://www.xenosystems.net/abstract-horror-note-2/#comment-104742 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:28:15 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=3505#comment-104742 The scepticism for exotic substances is warranted and shared. But the accelerating red shift however is very well documented. Merely speculating that the status quo continues yields the big rip as the inevitable consequence. The theoretical mechanism is sketchy but the observations are solid. It doesn’t mean the big rip is for sure but based on observations it is our best guess for the fate of the observable universe.

]]> By: John Hannon http://www.xenosystems.net/abstract-horror-note-2/#comment-104669 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:52:38 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=3505#comment-104669 Dragan Huterer – former postdoctoral fellow at Kalvi Institute for Cosmological Physics.
If you were making this stuff up, Kali Institute might be more appropriate.

]]> By: nyan_sandwich http://www.xenosystems.net/abstract-horror-note-2/#comment-104633 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:47:35 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=3505#comment-104633 Good catch.

]]> By: Cledun http://www.xenosystems.net/abstract-horror-note-2/#comment-104603 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:08:25 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=3505#comment-104603 “*depending* on which surveys you use, there *could* be *slight evidence* that the dark energy density has been increasing over the past 2 billion years, but it’s *not statistically significant* yet”

Emphasis mine.

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