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The Accelerating Universe

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Universe</strong> is Expanding!<br />

1929 Edwin Hubble measured<br />

the Doppler shift of nearby<br />

galaxies and found a simple<br />

relation with their distance –<br />

v = H 0 d<br />

velocity<br />

distance<br />

Easy to measure<br />

velocity. Hard to<br />

measure distance!

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