You mean dark matter.

In fact all matter does what he is saying (opposes expansion), which makes his comment... well troublesome.

This post was edited by Azrad on Oct 30 2013 01:57pm

This lol

The force of gravity being applied between every masses in the universe, its a direct counter to the expansion rate. No need for a dark or anti matter to weakened the expansion rate of the universe, every mass is doing it very fine.

There was a big question of whether the gravity would ''win'' against the universe expansion rate, which would give a big crunch or w/e you want to call it, or if the universe would just expand forever.

Few posts stated something like gravity pulling back masses together until everything collapses (big crunch), but I thought this theory was pushed aside in the last years. If anything, I heard the universe is believed to expand with an acceleration rate that is constantly getting bigger and bigger, until the cosmological picture of the universe (I mean the one we literally have when we look through a telescope) is completely different as every mass is getting farther and farther away from each other masses until everything is too far for light to even reach us. That means? A completely empty universe is what it would looks like.

I am in no mean an expert in physics, but I my post is related to a Laurence Krauss conference I saw on youtube.

The universe has been measured to be expanding at an accelerating rate. This leads some to believe that gravity in fact DOES apply a repulsive force, but at the distance on the order of the entire length of the universe.

You don't seem to understand the basic premise of the big bang at all. The big bang did not start as a point in "empty space." The big bang was the entire universe, everything including space, condensed down to a single point. There was no "outside" of this single point, thats all there was.

Out of the big bang came space itself along with all the matter/energy in it.

Your concept of infinity is very odd. You define it as a speed, a force, a number. You can't attribute one thing so many different attributes if you want to make a sound argument.

Its good to think about random abstract physics concepts but if you want to come up with anything even remotely plausible you should do some research on what physicists already know about the universe and try to understand the concepts your talking about. Scientists build off current theories for a reason, if everyone had to start out deriving Newtons laws on their own we would never make any progress.

You put our common Norse godhood to shame

Then black holes will eat every bit of matter eventually! (oh noes!)

I share none of the Norse beliefs that my birth father Vidar had. He tried to kill my brother and I with carbon monoxide poisoning. I'm starting to believe in the christian god, but certainly no Norse gods.

black holes dont work that way sorry