"Kolb explains that the ripples should affect the observable universe
because they flowed through all of space during inflation, leaving
behind a gravitational wake that can still be felt, if not seen,
nearby.
'Imagine you're out on the ocean, and it's foggy. You can be affected
by
very long-wavelength ripples, although you don't actually see the wave
-
all you feel is the swell moving up and down,' he told New Scientist.
He
adds the ripples are growing with time - which causes the acceleration.
'Tricky' calculations
'I like this idea a lot,' says Robert Brandenberger, a cosmologist
at
McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who predicted a similar effect
in
1998. 'We are sitting in the trough of a very long-wavelength density
wave, which generates something that looks to us like acceleration,'
he
told New Scientist."
~ Maggie McKee,
Quoted message said:From "Giant space-time ripples
May cause cosmic expansion"
NewScientist.com news service
March 2005
"... sounds like, O,
S & M? If so, insert names, fill in the blanks.
Or give thanks ~
For peaks and troughs, or mountains, valleys, for waves
Vacillating so high, so low, lathe
Heaven.
.... so tears spill,
As they will. But I will a way, for each of you
I see,
Climbing higher each day with me ~ As I fall farther ~
Each day's end, a goal, only to climb higher
Tomorrow,
Again, again,
Gratefully ... "
~ Twittering
"Beautifully said."
~ Kate
"Beautifully sad, but
Said not nearly
Well enough, for if my words weighed
Half their intent, their love, more
Than sound, they would yield, spilling a sea, sailed
Lost, until found.
.... sounds like,
O ..."
~ Twittering
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