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Originally Posted by Blue Fire  Decelerating? Forgive my ignorance, but apart from the initial inflationary period, I always thought Acceleration was the rule throughout. |
Actually he is right, after the force of the initial inflation and forced expansion started loosing momentum, gravity made an attempt to crunch the universe, but for unknown reasons (perhaps the space in which gravity had a hold was too large for it to over come the force of dark energy, and is continuing to have less effect on universal expansion due to increased space between objects) dark energy started accelerating the universe again...and continues to do so.