Recently a couple of independent research team have concluded
that the expansion in the universe is actually expanding rather
then slowing down as you would expect because of the gravity.
So here follows my theory why its so and this without knowing
to much about astrophysics and gravity at all. This is how I
picture the universe. There's not just one big bang, but an
infinite number of big bangs placed randomly in a universe that
is infinitely much larger then the universe that we picture today.
The gravital pull from the other universes together causes the
acceleration of the expansion. The cause of the big bang might
be caused by quantum mechanical breakdown when there's no gravity
at all and in an infinite universe there has to be points where
that happen. Quantum mechanics today has no limit and every
system is said to be a quantum mechanical system. Well I seriously
doubt that this can be right. There's a lot of stupid consequences
because of that, like we are living in an universe with infinite
different dimensions. A fair guess is that the quantum mechanics
doesn't work if the forces of gravity becomes bigger. Like quantum
mechanics would work for electrons, atoms, molecules etc but not
for bigger structure like your car.

There's a LOT of loose threads here and I've proved nothing at all.
But great ideas are usually found where you didn't look for them.
would say that exploring the effects of quantum mechanics for bigger
items then atoms would give some ideas if this theory is right
and as far as I know I dont think anyone done that. Or at least explore
if there's a limit for how big items that still are affected by
quantum mechanics. I know they have performed young's double slit
experiment with C-60 and thats fairly big items but I still have my doubts.
To comment on the gravital breakdown part, well I dont have the slightest
clue of what I'm talking about. But I can still say that since noone
else know either! If it was so though, it would explain why we would
be surrounded by other universes (universes that we can't see and probably
never can see, we can just feel the gravitational pull.) Well when I wrote
that sentence it came to my mind that gravitational waves probably travel
with some kind of speed too, but noone can say for how long they have
been traveling so it doesnt matter maybe. But if they travel with the
speed of light I'm in serious trouble:) Don't think anyone seen a gravitational
wave though, so maybe I'm totally off. I've actually been to a lecture where
some professor talked about how to detect them though. Was some kind of gigantic
michelson interferometer, but I fear it is just going to work to register
earthquakes.

Writing stuff down is usually a good way to sorting your thoughts out,
so thats what I did. I'm sorry you had to suffer!

//Malitrius