Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

This is a Horizon documentary shown by the BBC (which means probably only the british can watch)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rgg31/hd/Horizon_20092010_Is_Everything_We_Know_About_The_Universe_Wrong/

It talks about how the very nature of the universe as we know it could be wrong. The standard model of what happened at the beginning of everything could be wrong. At least five times in the program I thought, "what is going on?" People who know about high level physics probably knew this stuff already but I'm no scientist so this was incredibly interesting to me.

Two examples of interest:
The universe expansion is accelerating and there's no real explanation for how this is happening.
There is an area, billions of lightyears wide, in our universe, that is apparently contracting to a single point. This can be used as evidence for the multiverse.

It's packed full of theories and evidence and ideas, and very few answers, and that's how I like it.
The closer I am to the bleeding edge of cosmology, quantum physics, theoretical physics, the more open and more exciting it is to me, because anything could be true. But then I only take glances. I'm a writer, not a physicist.