so, is it really true that observing dark energy hastens the end of the Universe?

first there was that weird Swiss ballot encryption thing:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Swiss-to-use-encryption-voting-method/2007/10/13/1191696216022.html

now there is this weirder astronomers are hastening the end of the
universe thing:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bscienceb-did-astronomers-hasten-end-of-the-universe/2007/11/22/1195321929950.html

"Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may
have reduced the life-expectancy of the Universe," says
Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University.

this really seems like crap. in the former, i cannot understand how a
robust communications system cannot tolerate the loss of a photon, and
if it can, how it can differentiate a loss of a photon because of a
kink in the fiber-optics vs. someone observing the data. in the
latter, the light from the distant galaxies has been emitted, some of
it absorbed by dark matter, eventually an obscenely small portion
arrives on this planet where an obscenely large portion is just
absorbed. what difference to the Universe should it make as to what
state the neurons in the brains of some astronomers and physicists
are? this is silly.

r b-j

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