We live in an age when science just isn’t giving us Answers any more.
Tag: Hubble constant
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?
New measurement keeps the discrepancy around the Hubble constant alive
So if there is something fundamentally wrong with our picture of the universe, there still is, more or less, and we will have to live with it for now.
Rob Sheldon: Here’s why physicists are surprised by the universe’s increased expansion rate
The two methods differ in that one is “direct” and the other “indirect”. Clearly one or both of them is making a mistake. Since it is hard to find (and people have looked) a reason why the direct method is failing, the feeling is that the indirect method must have a mistake in its model.
We actually don’t know the precise value of the Hubble Constant
Thank goodness we were never in any danger of running out of end-of-the-universe/world/world-as-we-know-it scenarios anyway.
Could new galactic measurements “upend current theories” of physics?
At Horizons EU we are told, “New efforts to figure out just how fast the universe has expanded since the Big Bang, a speed known as the Hubble constant, could upend current theories of physics , according to some scientists. If current theories were upended, who would know. Consider these stories from this month alone: 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…