Larry and Jim's Most Excellent Adventure

In a new twist, with the premise that "dark energy" is real, two physicists are claiming that we may be destroying the universe simply by looking at it. Click HERE for the gruesome details.

"Profs Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and James Dent of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, who suggest that by making this observation in 1998 [of our universe with proposed dark energy] we may have caused the cosmos to revert to an earlier state when it was more likely to end. "Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may have reduced the life-expectancy of the universe," Prof Krauss tells New Scientist."

"Prof Krauss says that the measurement of the light from supernovae in 1998, which provided evidence of dark energy, may have reset the decay of the void to zero - back to a point when the likelihood of its surviving was falling rapidly. "In short, we may have snatched away the possibility of long-term survival for our universe and made it more likely it will decay," says Prof Krauss. Not all agree, since his interpretation hinges on one of the issues at the heart of quantum theory - do you need people to do the observing?"

Fine, except that ALL of this dark energy stuff hinges upon our perceptions of the light curves of, and our expectations that the luminosity from, Type 1a superenovae should appear as invariable. One nudge either way and the whole premise collapses. And it will - because already, Type 1a supernovae have been found to have curious differences in luminosity and light curves.

This is as bad as the global warming nuts... how arrogant.