This may be a dumb question, but how in the heck do they know the universe is expanding?
Dark matter and dark energy are simply theories (at least at this point) used to fill in gaps in the other wild and crazy theories that they are trying to use to figure out a creation of an infinite God with a small lump of gray matter.
A big bang of what?
What if someone cuts those strings with scissors?
There is not even any definitive proof that black holes exist.
But then there must be black l holes leaking out all this other black stuff cuase it has to come from somewhere!
Of course not , just a little humor.Yes, they are abstract concepts that make little inuitive sense. They are just there to make the numbers fit together correctly. However, math is uncannily accurate. There is some other factor; the astronomers just don't know how to describe or explain it.
Matter, space and time.
From where? And what evidence is there of any kind of "original explosion? And was it a bang or a pop? LOL! I think it was more of a pop when God said let there be and it popped into existence.
As in the superstrings?
Yes, those mythical strings.
We can see things being sucked into them. We can measure the radiation emitted from the process. Also, black holes make theoretical sense. It is a predicted result of some collapses of stars.
So they seem very likely. Why not?
That is how it appears but from billions of miles away who is to say, no one have ever actually witnessed one.
That is certainly not the supposed origin of dark matter or dark energy.