Hello – I have a question. I am not a physicist or mathamatician but hopefully the question makes sense.
Recent thinking is that the universe as we know it has only 4% matter -23% is Dark Matter (physical ‘stuff’ we can’t see) and 73% is Dark Energy. That sounds like a lot of Dark Energy to me? So how can the mathamatical calculation of . 00000000000 etc 138 – a very small number – be responsible for such a strong gravitational pull? The two numbers .0000000 etc 138 (very small) and 73% (huge) don’t make sense to me? Can anyone explain? Also I can’t see why we will one day look upon a sky devoid of stars and planets and galaxies – if the universe and the stuff in it is expaning faster and faster surely we are (as in our galaxy) as well? Can anyone help me understand this?
elaine bousfield commented on Feb 3 2013
Hello – I have a question. I am not a physicist or mathamatician but hopefully the question makes sense.
Recent thinking is that the universe as we know it has only 4% matter -23% is Dark Matter (physical ‘stuff’ we can’t see) and 73% is Dark Energy. That sounds like a lot of Dark Energy to me? So how can the mathamatical calculation of . 00000000000 etc 138 – a very small number – be responsible for such a strong gravitational pull? The two numbers .0000000 etc 138 (very small) and 73% (huge) don’t make sense to me? Can anyone explain? Also I can’t see why we will one day look upon a sky devoid of stars and planets and galaxies – if the universe and the stuff in it is expaning faster and faster surely we are (as in our galaxy) as well? Can anyone help me understand this?