Accelerating expansion, completely measurable, is known to be happening now and with Dark Matter and Dark Energies being theorized as driving forces for a continuing Big Bang. It should go without saying that nothing is where it once was.

For the moment, these observations support theoretical assumptions that pass the quantum litmus-test for what’s behind our expanding universe (AKA, for most of Spaceship Earth “confusing or meaningless language,” “mumbo-jumbo” and the like) but all these still remain more accepted as some of our current, more baffling mysteries than any solid conclusion.

In Paul Sutter’s wrap-up:

“In other words, the complicated (and, admittedly, poorly understood) physics of this critical epoch may indeed allow for a radically revised view of our time and place in the cosmos. But to fully test this model, we’ll have to wait for a new generation of cosmology experiments, so let’s wait to break out the ekpyrotic champagne.”

What goes out must come back? Well, not yet — but maybe … some day…