1.   For this reason, beyond a certain stage, any remedial measure to counteract gravity becomes self-defeating.

2.   Similarly an insect walking on the surface of a pond would have gravity counteracted by the surface tension of the water.

3.   Something besides the gravity of matter, which should be slowing the expansion rate over time, must be acting to counteract gravity.

4.   The repulsive energy force would presumably counteract gravity and make the universe in his theory stand still.