Question for Cosmologists

Note the following story in New
Scientist<http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8566&feedId=online-news_rss20>
:

Dark energy – the mysterious force that drives the acceleration of the
universe – changes over time, controversial new calculations suggest. If
true, the work rules out Einstein's notion of a "cosmological constant" and
suggests dark energy, which now repels space, once drew it together.
[emphasis mine]

My question for the cosmologists on this group is as follows: Does this not
imply that inflation is incorrect and by extension so is the multiverse
explanation of fine-tuning?
Received on Thu Jan 12 23:03:07 2006