Who really found out the Universe's acceleration?

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Prof. Brian Schmidt got the Nobel Prize for his work in expansion of the universe which he did in 1998. His team was able to figure out that earlier in the past, the universe's expansion rate was slower than it is right now and it's actually increasing day by day.

However, wasn't the same thing given by Edwin Hubble who said that the velocity of a galaxy is higher if it's farther away. Doesn't it imply that the universe's expansion is accelerating as did Prof. Schmidt's study? What new did Prof. Schmidt and his team really discover?
 

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Please recall that this is not projectile motion under the influence of gravity; rather the expansion of space. The expanding balloon or raisin bread are commonly used analogies.

Hubble found a linear relationship between velocity and distance; Schmidt et al found a non linear relationship between these two variables.
 
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Einstein may have been credited for discovering both expansion and accelerated expansion had he taken his original calculations more seriously.
 
DrSteve said:
Please recall that this is not projectile motion under the influence of gravity; rather the expansion of space. The expanding balloon or raisin bread are commonly used analogies.

Hubble found a linear relationship between velocity and distance; Schmidt et al found a non linear relationship between these two variables.
So, Hubble found that as the distance increased, the velocity increased. So, if you were to plot a graph between distance and velocity, it'll be a straight line. However, Prof. Schmidt's work got an exponential line in the graph, correct?
 
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So, Hubble found that as the distance increased, the velocity increased. So, if you were to plot a graph between distance and velocity, it'll be a straight line. However, Prof. Schmidt's work got an exponential line in the graph, correct?
The relationship is not linear, but not exponential, either. There is no simple functional form for the general relationship.
 
DrSteve said:
The relationship is not linear, but not exponential, either. There is no simple functional form for the general relationship.
But the basic idea is the same, right? Edwin Hubble got one that said that velocity of galaxies increases as a function of distance, while Brian Schmidt said that the velocity accelerates. So, Edwin Hubble expanded the universe like a balloon at a uniform rate, while Brain Schmidt increased the volume of space added per second to the ballon.
 
Just to be clear, in both cases space is itself expanding (crudely speaking, new space is being created each second), but in the accelerating universe this newly created space itself contains a little energy (the cosmological constant) that in turn modifies how much space is being added each second. So it is intrinsically non-linear.
 
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DrSteve said:
Just to be clear, in both cases space is itself expanding (crudely speaking, new space is being created each second), but in the accelerating universe this newly created space itself contains a little energy (the cosmological constant) that in turn modifies how much space is being added each second. So it is intrinsically non-linear.
All right, thanks! :)
 
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