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Joanne - Accelerating expansion (07.06.2002)

I'm an OU student and I'm seriously considering the level 3 Cosmology course for next year. One thing that troubles me, is the evidence for accelerated expansion. I'm obviously missing something but if very distant objects have massive red shifts, the as we are looking back in time when making these observations, how does this show that expansion is accelerating ?

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You measure the acceleration by looking at HOW the distance has changed with redshift.
Sean Ryan
Open University