>From Today's New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/03/science/03STAR.html
CHuck & Huck may actually be right (I'm not making this up).
Matt Murray
mattm@optonline.net
April 3, 2001
Photo Gives Weight to Einstein's Thesis of Negative Gravity
By JAMES GLANZ
A photograph of a distant exploding star has given astronomers the first
direct evidence that a mysterious "negative gravity" force swept through and
still pervades the universe, scientists announced at a NASA news conference
yesterday in Washington.
The Hubble Space Telescope by chance photographed the exploding star, the
most distant ever observed, in 1997. Scientists say subsequent detective
work on the relative intensity of its light confirms one of Einstein's
conjectures about the universe: that all of space is bubbling with an
invisible form of energy that creates a mutual repulsion between objects
normally attracted to each other by gravity.
Einstein himself thought the force, which he called the cosmological
constant, was so strange that he later repudiated his conjecture. But the
idea gained theoretical support in 1998 with findings suggesting that the
expansion of the universe was accelerating and that the force accelerating
the expansion, negative gravity - the manifestation of the cosmological
constant - overtook the force of gravity in the last few billion years. . .
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