Thought you’d like this quote from: https://www.yahoo.com/news/may-misunderstood-universe-nobel-prize-213014590.html
For a long time, scientists believed they understood how fast the universe is growing — but the more they learn, those theories seem to be expanding as fast as the universe itself.
Basically, the “Hubble constant” measures the speed at which the universe is expanding. The only problem? Different instruments keep providing different values for it, giving rise to what’s known as the “Hubble tension.”
It raises an interesting possibility: that, as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Adam Riess explains in a NASA blog, much of what we thought we knew about the universe may have been wrong.
No fooling!
Thanks for the link Tom. So maybe, just maybe, they’ve gotten a lot of things wrong. A lot of the dark matter and dark energy rigamarole is starting to seem half-baked. I think they need to find someone who is asking the right questions. One thing I heard about is a re-evaluation for the fundamental equation for gravity. At very small acceleration the equation isn’t the simple inverse square function. The pity is maybe we won’t be around when they finally figure it out. Then again, there are plenty enough things in our corner of the universe to keep me… Read more »
The question is: Is the data wrong or is it the theory?
The answer may well be: Both!
I’d believe both. And why shouldn’t there be major changes in our understanding of something as unimaginably large as intergalactic space. From Aristotle to Newton was enormous. Why shouldn’t Einstein to whatever comes next be just as large.
I’ve always thought it unlikely that the universe is complex but just to the exact degree that it could be understood only by the top .1% of humanity. Sorta like randomly pulling the Ace of spades time after time out of a series of card decks, either there was a HUGE coincidence or the situation is tuned in some aspect.
How may times have we (humanity) been convinced that we have the ultimate indivisible building block of the universe identified? Atom, nucleus, proton, quark, it’s lke we’re being gamed.
Tom, I know what you mean about the path it seems we are being led down. At each stage we seem to be given only just enough mastery over nature to cause a calculated amount of trouble. If anyone tells me he has all the answers I don’t even bother laughing anymore I just move on.