How many times you gotta see it

 

before you admit to yourself

there is an intelligence behind it all?

Ripples in Spacetime 

and the Universe's Most Controversial Number

Universetoday.com 03/26/26

"Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime, produced when massive objects like black holes collide. LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA, the global network of extraordinarily sensitive detectors have been listening for these astronomical tremors since 2015. 

What makes them special for cosmology is 

that gravitational waves carry 

information 

about the distance to their source 

encoded directly 

in the signal itself. 

They're what are known as "standard sirens,” like standard candles, but for ears rather than eyes."

(Information always requires

a sentient intellect.

Always.

It never just creates itself.

And to all the smart asses out there:

At least not initially it can't/doesnt.

It always comes from 

(at least initially)

an outside source.)

"Here's where it gets deeper. What we call the Hubble "constant" is actually something of a misnomer, it’s really a snapshot of the expansion rate right now. 

(Then it is a parameter

not a constant.)

"In the early universe, 

gravity was winning 

and expansion was slowing down. 

Then, around five billion years ago, 

dark energy took over and flipped that 

into the accelerating expansion 

we see today."

"A causeless effect

is bad logic."

~

Unger

So it was slowing down

(Kinda like a balloon)

and then it started expanding again:

"Theism - the belief in the existence of at least one god or divine being who created the world, is distinct from it, and often remains active within it."

"The expansion rate has a history, and it's complicated."

"This matters because the two main competing measurements aren't just producing different numbers they're probing different epochs. The cosmic microwave background method is essentially an early-universe measurement, extrapolated forward using our best model of cosmic evolution. The supernova method measures the local universe directly, today. If they disagree, it might not just mean one camp made an error. It could mean our model of how the universe evolved between then and now is fundamentally incomplete and that dark energy isn't as constant as we assumed,

(Maybe its a parameter huh?

Constants don't change,

thats why they are "constants".

Parameters, 

while they are still the "law"

that nature has to obey,

change over time.

If the speed limit was 55 MPH everywhere?

then it would be a constant.

Just because its different in different places

(or in the example in the article above

at different times)

doesn't mean it's not still the law.)

"or that something unexpected happened 

in the early universe 

that we haven't accounted for."

(Well no kidding,

seeing as how something 

cant come from nothing?

I'd go with that,

or a combination of that and:

"dark energy isn't 

as constant as we assumed.")

"That's why an independent measurement like this one, using a completely different physical mechanism, is so valuable. It's not just another data point it's a new pair of eyes, or rather ears on the history of the cosmos."