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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dark energy is a bit of a meme, have the inconsistencies with jws and hubble been resolved yet?

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨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”.

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