Dark Matter and the Like
by Adam | Sunday 23 January 2011
Props to writer and TFR-friend Ilana Garon for thrusting this Brian Greene piece on our previously science-secular writing group. Humbling ideas to think on (even if it came from the Times.)
If the dark energy doesn’t degrade over time, then the accelerated expansion of space will continue unabated, dragging away distant galaxies ever farther and ever faster. A hundred billion years from now, any galaxy that’s not resident in our neighborhood will have been swept away by swelling space for so long that it will be racing from us at faster than the speed of light. (Although nothing can move through space faster than the speed of light, there’s no limit on how fast space itself can expand.)