Comment on Anon revisits early youtube
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months agoWe don’t know that for fact, we can’t even agree on the age of the universe. Maybe there’s a big crunch
Comment on Anon revisits early youtube
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months agoWe don’t know that for fact, we can’t even agree on the age of the universe. Maybe there’s a big crunch
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I don’t think it’s been ruled out for certain, but I believe the data is looking incredibly bad for big crunch enthusiasts, since the discovery of dark energy.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Dark energy is a bit of a meme, have the inconsistencies with jws and hubble been resolved yet?
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I take issue with discovery. To say there’s a mysterious inexplicable expansion of the universe hardly qualifies as such. It sounds more like a failure to understand our physical laws than to posit the presence of mysterious and otherwise undetectable entity.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
The use of the word “discovery” in this case was carefully considered. The discovery of “dark energy” refers to the effect: the unexpected acceleration of the expansion of space. The fact that the expansion is accelerating was a discovery, and dark energy is just the name given to “whatever causes that”.