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70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Deceleration Parameter of the Universe
The universe is not decelerating at all, it's accelerating. The expansion is going faster and faster. So we had to figure out how to make the universe expand faster. It turned out that that little term that Einstein had put in his equations at first to just keep the universe stable because he thought that the universe was not expanding but there's all these gravities. He putting that back to balance the gravity out and overcompensate and push galaxies apart from each other. But yeah, it turned out everything seemed to be fitting with an accelerating universe.
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