NASA'S Galaxy Evolution Explorer Finds Dark Energy Repulsive
WASHINGTON -- A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching
back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the
best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our
universe apart at accelerating speeds. The survey used data from
NASA's space-based Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Anglo-
Australian Telescope on Siding Spring Mountain in Australia. The
findings offer new support for the favored theory of how dark
energy works – as a constant force, uniformly affecting the
universe and propelling its runaway expansion. They contradict
an alternate theory, where gravity, not dark energy, is the
force pushing space apart. According to this alternate theory,
with which the new survey results are not consistent, Albert
Einstein's concept of gravity is wrong, and gravity becomes
repulsive instead of attractive when acting at great distances.
"The action of dark energy is as if you threw a ball up in the
air, and it kept speeding u