Stop the Presses

Yep,  Einstein was right.  If you read the watered down consumer friendly version of the latest Hubble telescope discovery posted on AOL, it's all there. Einstein's theory about Dark Energy, which he decided was wrong, is actually right.

Apparently in 1998, "astronomers who were using supernova explosions to gauge the expansion of the universe made a shocking observation. It appeared that older supernovae, whose light had traveled a greater distance across space to reach the Hubble telescope, were receding from Earth more slowly than simple big-bang theory would predict. Nearby supernovae were receding more quickly than expected. That could only be true if some mysterious force were causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate over time."

Now the Hubble has actual photographs that show this.

AHA!!! 

But, wait, here is my favorite quote from the story:

"Dark energy makes us nervous," said Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology who was not involved in the supernova study. "It fits the data, but it's not what we really expected."

Nervous?  Whaddya mean, "nervous?"

 . . .Dark energy could be some property of space itself, which is what Einstein was thinking of when he proposed it. Or it could be something akin to an electromagnetic field pushing on the universe. And then there's the possibility that the whole thing is caused by some hitherto undiscovered wrinkle in the laws of gravity.

A wrinkle in the laws of gravity?  Estee Lauder makes a great cream for that.

I think I've discovered why so many scientists are men.  Particularly theoretical physicists, those guys who spend years contemplating the possibilities of things, rather than the realities.

Someone else is doing their laundry, heating their food, raising their kids, putting gas in their cars, finding the remote, and reminding them to get a haircut, although Einstein looks like he never kept his appointments.

Forgive me for assuming that "someone else" is a woman, but why else would there be such a dearth of females in scientific endeavors except that somebody has to make the coffee. Not that in our post feminist world she hasn't been encouraged to engage in abstract thinking when her chores are done.

Even those double helix guys Watson and Crick say that a woman really cracked the code before they did.  She just didn't get the credit.  Neither did the babe who invented Mr. McCormick's reaper. Edison was homeschooled by his mother while we're at it.

As far as I'm concerned men can have their fun wondering if the universe is folding in on itself.  I wouldn't trade one snot nosed poopy diaper day for a chance to be at the top of their profession, or mine for that matter. I saw the mountaintop and the view was better from the sandbox.