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Old 31-January-2006, 08:17 PM
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Isn't that a poor example ? Astrophysicists agree that that the Moon will eventually achieve escape velocity, and be hurled off somewhere else in the solar system.

But the dark matter / dark energy discussion has typically revolved around the unexplained high velocity of galaxies and galactic clusters. Gravity is actually a very weak force in atomic terms. It takes significantly large bodies to see and measure these effects.