negative gravity and negative journalism:
the speed of light and the whole theory of relativity that was thought 'immutable' or absolute is no longer able to explain reality. when proof of 300x the speed of light came on the scene from the nec labs at princeton, n. j. in 2001, i cheered. the final blockage against creativity and growth had been proven. well that certainly was how i felt; even if it is just another step in the process of making sense of the soul and all the things adepts can and do actually do! from national post came another part to the puzzle.
"first direct evidence of negative gravity
a photograph of a distant exploding star has given astronomers the first direct evidence that a mysterious 'negative gravity' force swept through and still pervades the universe, scientists announced at a nasa press conference monday.
the exploding star, the most distant ever observed, was photographed by luck in 1997. but scientists say subsequent detective work involving the relative intensity of its light confirms one of einstein's conjectures about the universe: that all of space is now bubbling with an invisible form of energy that creates a mutual repulsion between objects normally attracted to each other by gravity.
einstein thought the force, which he called the cosmological constant, was so strange that he later repudiated it. but the idea gained support in 1998 with findings suggesting that the expansion of the universe is accelerating and that the accelerating force or negative gravity--the manifestation of the cosmological constant--overtook the force of gravity some time in the last few billion years.
{thus stopping a 'big bang' from reoccurring in a cycle of violent explosions and collisions, which martin rees [he changed his mind after hubbell took photos of the center of the universe and is now on the other side.] says had happened many times before as the universe worked to get it right.}
the new findings confirm that prediction. and they rule out a number of competing explanations.
because the total amount of this negative gravity in any given volume should be miniscule, its effects would go unfelt in everyday life. but over vast distances involving huge volumes of space, the anti-gravity effect would be powerful enough to push whole galaxies and clusters of galaxies apart from one another. exploding stars, or supernovas, such as the one that turned up unexpectedly on a photograph made by the hubble {it is spelt both ways.} telescope, can be excellent probes of those grand forces. the new observation is of a star that exploded 10 billion years ago, when the universe was a quarter of its present age and when, scientists theorize, the cosmological constant, often called 'dark energy', was less powerful than ordinary gravity, the opposite of what prevails today.
as a result, the expansion of the universe was slowing at that time. this deceleration means the star was closer to earth when it exploded than it otherwise would have been--a fact discernible in its unusual brightness. astronomers said it is twice as bright as it would have been under competing theories about the universe.
a team led by two astrophysicists, adam reiss of the space telescope science institute in baltimore and peter nugent of lawrence berkeley national laboratory, analyzed the observations. reiss said the measurement 'nails the existence of the dark energy'. {watch out o-be-wan kan-oh-be!}
michael turner, an astrophysicist at the university of chicago who was not involved in the work, called the dark energy 'one of the most important discoveries in all of science'.
he added the emphasis would now shift to a search for the source of the energy--a problem that so far has completely stumped physicists--and attempts to observe more and more distant supernovas to pin down the characteristics of the dark energy.
the universe is believed to be expanding as a legacy of the 'big bang' roughly 14 billion years ago. until several years ago, scientists were almost certain the gravitational attraction among the galaxies would slow the expansion.
one class of supernova explodes with nearly the same brightness each time, like bulbs of a known wattage. their brightness as seen from earth measures their absolute distance and the speed at which the expansion is sweeping them away.
an unexpected dimness suggested a cloud of cosmic dust - or an anti-gravity effect. but the relative brightness of the most distant supernovas, on the other side of the universe {remember they are talking about the known universe and they know there are other universes.}, agreed with einstein's theory, rather than with the cosmic dust hypothesis.” (1)
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