re: Hubble data: Universe "weirdly" expanding faster than expected.

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These same people can’t see when an astroid is heading our way until it’s in our solar system but you are going to tell me they know how to calculate how fast the universe is expanding? Okay.

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It’s actually fairly straightforward, depending on the precision of your instruments.

The level of red-shift (Doppler Effect) of a galaxy is proportional to the rate of recession from the observer (which in this case, can be generalized to the entire Milky Way galaxy).

You first do as Edwin Hubble did and observe that, in general, the entire universe is red-shifted (key phrase “in general”). And then you notice that the farther a galaxy is away, the more it’s red-shifted. Then you take what we we know about light and apply an equation to get a generalized figure for the rate of acceleration.

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When we can accurately predict the weather for tomorrow maybe I’ll listen.

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We can already basically predict the weather for tomorrow with a high degree of certainty:It’s the weather a week, a month, a year, a decade, etc. that becomes hard to predict because the weather is a complex, chaotic system.

It’s not that the universe itself isn’t also chaotic. But if you rewound the motion of the universe back far enough, when everything is sufficiently close to one another compared to today, the universe would collapse under gravity. That we can be reasonably sure of. It is just inevitable. So, in essence, there has to be a sort of “anti-gravity” force acting on the universe to keep it expanding.

My waist is expanding at increasing rate, too. I have always been one with the universe (and Oreos).

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the universe will asymptote to a non-zero positive temperature value at maximum entropy and no further work being possible

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TWSS

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Hubble data: Universe "weirdly" expanding faster than expected.

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damn, I guess climate change is real after all