In 1998, it was announced that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. What does this imply from the perspective of the big bang?

a. A force exists that we knew nothing about that causes the acceleration.
b. The universe must be closed.
c. The universe is finite.
d. The amount of dark matter must be greatly less than the amount of normal matter.
e. The universe must be infinitely old.


A

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