We live in an age when science just isn’t giving us Answers any more.
Tag: cosmic expansion
At New Scientist: There’s a basic fact about the universe that we “still don’t understand”
Here’s a question: What if the basic fact we “still don’t understand” is that the evidence shows that the universe is fine-tuned and that therefore, fine-tuning is not an illusion that needs explaining away? Would that simplify things? If so, how? Another question (now that we’re here anyway): How much publicly funded cosmology exists simply to promote a naturalist atheist (no fine-tuning) worldview? And what is the science rationale for that?
Will the debate over the expansion of the universe “unravel” physics?
Well, they do seem to be taking it seriously.
The early universe was flat to a “suspicious” one part in a million
An “expert voice” astrophysicist explains that the Big Bang is now the “vanilla Big Bang,” which is unpopular because it doesn’t explain all observations: The Big Bang model is our most successful explanation for the history of the universe that we live in, and it’s ridiculously easy to encapsulate its core framework in a single, Read More…
“Expanding blueberry muffin” picture of the universe collapses
And cosmologists race to win a “great cosmic bake-off” to produce a new one, says astrophysicist: Just as cosmological measurements have became so precise that the value of the Hubble constant was expected to be known once and for all, it has been found instead that things don’t make sense. Instead of one we now Read More…