Dark Energy (On youtube)

Sometimes the death of a star

Casts its light very far, Glowing like a hundred billion Suns.

One per galaxy per century

But the galaxies are plenty

So one can be seen every night

Far and bright

But dimmer than we expected them to be

The light roars across space

The great vastness we face, stretching as space expands

With big telescopes we catch

And we measure the stretch;

It is less than we expected it to be

Can’t believe

How the rate of space creation has increased

What is causing this rush?

This late great cosmic flush, hurtling all things apart

Cosmo constant, scalar field,

No compelling theories yield

To the best of our creative and daring minds

Young and bright

Who strain, and reach, and struggle to know why

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And how expansion used to be

How you’d recede away from me

It was fast but slowing down

Maybe you’d even start approaching

But now He’s speeding up the rate

Out of contact is our fate

Dark energy is all around

Diluting everything it’s not

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What a strange thing in space

We have found from this place

That is circling all `round the Sun.

LST, JDEM too

We will unveil a clue

Then we’ll know how it all holds together

And we’ll mark

One more milepost on our never-ending quest