Original: February 12, 2001 I know that I have mentioned it
before but the following questions are really blowing my mind.
It seems as if Einstein (Mr. One Mug) was always sorry that he
couldn’t mathematically explain what he termed LAMBDA – a force
that is sort of like a FORCE CONSTANT that is pulling objects
apart in space. He could never understand how a BIG BANG was
powerful enough to throw matter apart (things like stars and
galaxies) with such a force that it will continue expanding
forever. He thought it possible that the universe someday (a
gazillion years in the future) would fall back in on itself,
like a big rubber band was pulling on everything, and it would
collapse in a BIG KAVOT due to gravity tugging at all worlds
within it. Unfortunately, modern astrophysics (indeed not so
modern) can’t explain how just the opposite is happening. Edwin
Hubble tried to define this “constant” with what has come to be
known as the ‘Hubble Constant’. But, using modern equipment to
look at far distant objects – li