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...concept originally proposed by and later abandoned by Einstein as the greatest blunder of his life. This force, which has lately been dubbed "dark energy," isn't just keeping the expansion from slowing down, it's making the universe fly apart faster and faster all the time, like a rocket ship with the throttle wide open...
Others, meanwhile, attacked a different aspect of the problem. As the universe expands, the combined gravity from all the matter within it tends to slow that expansion, much as the earth's gravity tries to pull a rising rocket back to the ground. If the pull is strong enough, the expansion will stop and reverse itself; if not, the cosmos will go on getting bigger, literally forever. Which is it? One way to find out is to weigh the cosmos--to add up all the stars and all the galaxies, calculate their gravity and compare that with the expansion rate...
...onstage and parading his gorgeous daughters for votes. He talked endlessly about his feelings, dabbled in New Age profundity, backed gay rights and spoke of his own existential crises. He was a man who would rather gaze at an Internet image of the rotating Earth than get in a rocket and fly to the moon...
CANDY CLAY At long last, Play-Doh you can eat. Kosher-foods giant Rokeach introduces this hands-on treat 131 years after the company was founded as a soap factory. Rokeach also makes rocket pops and candynamite...
...against New York, Ichiro startled several Yankees when he hit an innocent one-hopper back to the pitcher and?whoosh!?missed beating the throw by only half a step. "He caught Mo 100% by surprise," said Yankees left-hander Ted Lilly. "He tore off for the base like a rocket...