What are all the objects in the universe moving towards?

[Tri4se]

Isn't that the Islamic holy book thing?  Or am I thinking Hindu?

It's Islamic.

Hindu is the Vedic.

[ME##]

It's Islamic.

Hindu is the Vedic.

Vedas is the name of the book.

[Feynman]

No, he isn't. He's just an idiot.

[Tomboh]

"Cosmologists now have fairly precise measurement of many of the parameters of the Big Bang model, and have made the unexpected discovery that the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang#Hubble.27s_law_and_the_expansion_of_space

Selkie is right.

I remember seeing a show on this once, so I looked it up because I thought I remembered that the universe was accelerating. I thought it had something to do with Dark Matter...

lol tomboh was right: Measurements of the redshift?magnitude relation for type Ia supernovae have revealed that the expansion of the universe has been accelerating since the universe was about half its present age. To explain this acceleration, general relativity requires that much of the energy in the universe consists of a component with large negative pressure, dubbed "dark energy".

same article

[wolflink64]

UBER GIANT BLACK HOLE OF DEATH  burned;

[Garahe]

Dark energy propels the force of "Anti-gravity" pushing everything apart. Apparently there is an epic battle between "normal matter/energy" and "dark matter/energy".

[Snorkel]

"Cosmologists now have fairly precise measurement of many of the parameters of the Big Bang model, and have made the unexpected discovery that the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang#Hubble.27s_law_and_the_expansion_of_space

Selkie is right.

I remember seeing a show on this once, so I looked it up because I thought I remembered that the universe was accelerating. I thought it had something to do with Dark Matter...

lol tomboh was right: Measurements of the redshift?magnitude relation for type Ia supernovae have revealed that the expansion of the universe has been accelerating since the universe was about half its present age. To explain this acceleration, general relativity requires that much of the energy in the universe consists of a component with large negative pressure, dubbed "dark energy".

same article

Oh. Well, I apologize. The last book on cosmology I read must be a bit dated.

It's sort of a stupid and insignificant question, anyway. Especially to single out our universe -- what with the recent near-evidence of entanglement theory, everything physicists think they know about how cosmic bodies work is probably completely wrong.