Recent content by exDark

thank you again for the explanation, its clear to me now what I was overlooking, or at least its apparent to me that the observations we see are not obvious when applying the intuition I was using in my OP. very interesting stuff, cheers.

thank you! I see what you're saying about the "percentage growth rate" and I think that is what was confusing me. I still feel a bit of slight confusion, when thinking about how the perceived rate of growth for space in the past made the objects in space to appear to be decelerating, then begin...

if the expansion of the universe seems to be accelerating the farther away in distance(and time) we look, then since we're looking into the past because light has a finite speed, and the further you go in the past, the faster the universe's expansion was. why should there be any dark energy...