Essays Tagged: "Metric expansion of space"

Creation and the Cosmos.

the fact that:The universe was born at a specific time in the past and has expanded ever since.The Expansion of the UniverseEdwin Hubble established the existence of other galaxies. He noted that the ... universe is expanding as a whole. Modern equipment has observed and verified this so-called Hubble expansion exists throughout the observable universe.This shows three important things. First there i ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.4 Dec/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Dark Matter

king in the Universe created a whole new field of study, understanding how that new energy affected expansion meant astronomers had to prove that dark matter and dark energy exists at all. So, what is ... e was actually expanding even slower than it is today. The accepted theory before this was that the expansion of the Universe had been slowing due to gravity, when in fact it has been accelerating. No ...

(3 pages) 0 0 0.0 Jul/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy