Dan Kachoogian YES, that's so right. And it does (freak me out). i remember I thought they were "full of it" when they started talking about Dark Matter and then Dark Energy 'til I realized they were new names for old things. But the acceleration IS freaky - makes me think of the old cartoon, "Gotta Split!", then he tears in two - will the acceleration JUST be the spacetime fabric OR will it a...lso affect US (since we're part of the spacetime fabric as well) - or does gravity effectively counteract the "Anti-Gravity" force?"