What is causing the Universe to expand?

Yesterday on 60 minutes they had a part about the hubble space telescope.  It has given man pictures of galaxies never before seen because of distance.

But one of it not its most important discovery was the expansion of the Universe.  We already know the Universe is expanding,  but the gravity is doing something its never been known to do before.  Instead of slowing down,  the Universe is expanding even faster then before.

A NASA scientist put it this way,  when you throw a ball up,  it goes to a certain point,  slows down, and comes back down due to gravity right?  Lets say the Universe expanding is like the ball going up,  but instead of slowing down and  coming back down,  something is pulling it up faster then ever.

This goes against the laws of gravity,  and scientists are baffled as to what is causing the Universe to expand faster.

I just thought this was interesting and decided to share it with all in case of not watching 60 minutes.

Any ideas?

I am not God

God

the best and most useful answer ever!

Edit: argh, Unicron destroyed my post :/

I read in Illustrated Science (Illustrerad Vetenskap) that it has something to do with a parallel universe (as I understood it)..

We live in a "bran" and our "bran" has a sister bran connected via a "vacuum spring" .. Right now we are going away from the sister "bran", but the vacuum spring will eventually stop the expanding and we will collide with our sister bran (after the universe has died that is..) and our universe will be reborn.

Something like that

Originally posted by fastson
I read in Illustrated Science (Illustrerad Vetenskap) that it has something to do with a parallel universe (as I understood it)..

We live in a "bran" and our "bran" has a sister bran connected via a "vacuum spring" .. Right now we are going away from the sister "bran", but the vacuum spring will eventually stop the expanding and we will collide with our sister bran (after the universe has died that is..) and our universe will be reborn.

Something like that

OK so we\'re connected to a seperate parrallel Universe and a vacume spring is pulling us together,  well theres another theory,  any more?

But this theory does not explain the acceleration

Originally posted by Clowd


OK so we\'re connected to a seperate parrallel Universe and a vacume spring is pulling us together,  well theres another theory,  any more?

I dont remember the whole article but I remember there were more "evidence" to this theory.. (my brother "stole" the magazine from me so I cant look in it right now)
They\'re sending up a satellite however to measure something to see if we really live in a bran connected to another bran :boom:

I had a look on the site:

Big Bang

En ny teori om universums utveckling kommer kanske att kasta omkull den gamla Big Bangmodellen. Hittills har man ansett att allting har en början och ett slut, men den nya teorin påstår att vårt universum ständigt återföds.

Big Bang.

A new theory about the universe development will destroy the old Big Bang model. Until now we have always thought everything has a beginning and a end, but the new theory says that our universe constantly is reborn.

But this theory does not explain the acceleration

It did.. But I dont remember what the "facts" were.

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Ey, didn\'t your see what bjorn said.. It\'s god. Nothing more nothing less. Lets all bow to god. "bows to bjorn" tehehe.

What is causing the Universe to expand?

Maybe it\'s just that everything in existance is trying to get as far away from you as possible

What is causing the Universe to expand?

I thought it was "God" had to make more room since we are getting more fat people on earth.

How can the universe expand if it is infinite?
If it isn\'t infinite, then what is beyond it? And beyond that? And that?

What happened before the creation of the universe? What before that? What will happen when the universe ends? And after that?

These are questions that no human can answer, if you sat and thought about these impossible to answer questions then you\'d go insane.

[nO-One]

Just as strange is something that\'s happening to a Voyager probe IIRC, seems it is travelling through a region of space where nothing should be but it\'s slowing down. And no scientist could explain what on earth (pun intended) could be slowing it down.

We can think all we like about these things, but I don\'t think we can really get the answers until we develop the technoligy that would enable us to go and take a look for ourselves.

Actually I have a Time Magazine from a year ago that says evidence found by the hubble suggests that our universe will NOT contract back onto itself, but will instead break down into small bits of positively and negetively charged sub-atomic particals and will continue to expand until virtually nothing exists save for those particals which are billions upon billions of lightyears away from each other in all directions.. and increasing distance.

As for the universe "speeding up", it could be anything. A new property of the universe we haven\'t discovered, a parallel dimension (or several of which), or even a mistake in their calculations. Let them study it more before jumping to a bunch of wild ideas.. it\'s not like we\'re really pressed for time here.

ill just said god cuz im lazy...or mayyybeeeee

its some huge alien anti gravity thingy which expands the universe and then it creates stuff.....cuz its a huge alien anti gravity thingy

[Titan]

Well, the laws of gravity are always screwy in space. The universe is constantly moving and changing. The stars in the galaxy are always moving in like an orbit kind of thing. I enjoy thinking about space and the universe.

Originally posted by Solid Snake 88
How can the universe expand if it is infinite?
If it isn\'t infinite, then what is beyond it? And beyond that? And that?

What happened before the creation of the universe? What before that? What will happen when the universe ends? And after that?

These are questions that no human can answer, if you sat and thought about these impossible to answer questions then you\'d go insane.

Space is infinite not the universe,meaning measurable matter.As for the question of why is the universe expanding,we will never know in our lifetime.