(October 4, 2012 at 9:56 pm)Polaris Wrote:(October 4, 2012 at 9:19 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Perhaps you misspoke there; the geologic timescale is a heartbeat in comparison with cosmic time.
Not really much difference as both deal in billions of years. Only way I would see a real significant difference would be if I still believed in the collapsing universes theory.
It is not believed to be constant because of the believed exponential effects of dark energy.
I don’t know if it has been proven, but is believed that the rate of expansion is accelerating therefore not a constant. But, is it accelerating at a constant exponential rate?
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