Beyond the Three Fates! Big Rip Universe! The Entire Hall Is Stunned! What Exactly Drives Expansion!

The next day's conference truly did not disappoint everyone.

Hubble's supernova distance-measurement method had already been shocking enough. No one expected it to be merely an appetizer.

When Hubble finally proposed that "the universe is undergoing accelerated expansion," everyone was stunned!

It was as though they had heard some fantastic tale from the Arabian Nights.

The hall immediately erupted in fierce reactions.

"Heavens!"

"How is that possible?"

"How could the universe be expanding at an accelerating rate?"

Hale, Eddington, Shapley, and the others all wore expressions of utter disbelief.

This news was simply too shocking.

Hale in particular had known before the conference that Hubble had made a breakthrough discovery.

But he had assumed it was the supernova distance-measurement method.

He never imagined it would be the accelerated expansion of the universe.

The importance of the two was on completely different levels.

If the universe truly was expanding at an accelerating rate, it might be something even more bizarre than the existence of Dark Matter.

Yet quite a few young scholars, still inexperienced and knowing little about Cosmic Expansion, were deeply confused.

"What's wrong with accelerated expansion?"

"Why are the big shots in the front rows so agitated?"

"What speed is the Cosmic Expansion we always talk about?"

One of the big shots sighed.

"What's wrong with it? It's practically a problem as vast as the sky!"

At that moment, everyone's curiosity had reached its peak.

Hubble looked at their expressions and smiled faintly.

He knew that today's achievement of his would shake the entire astronomical community.

Slogans and opinions alone were not enough. Next, he began laying out his observational results.

"According to the expansion formula: V = HD, where V represents a galaxy's recession velocity, D represents the distance between the galaxy and Earth, and H is the