Our Universe is expanding faster than science can explain, sending physics into "crisis" mode

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-18 15:32:52 | Updated at 2025-01-22 06:58:48 3 days ago

Our Universe is expanding faster than science can explain, sending physics into "crisis" mode
Earth.com ^ | 1-17-25 | Eric Ralls

Posted on 01/18/2025 7:17:27 AM PST by Strict9

Observations suggest that galaxies are moving apart at a higher rate than scientists have long expected. Many now wonder if the standard model of cosmology can fully explain what’s going on.

Dan Scolnic is an associate professor of physics at Duke University. He and his team led a new study, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, that strengthens the case for a mismatch between data and predictions.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: doomed; needmoreturtles

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I read once from an astronomer that there was a theory that the speed of light has slowed down since the formation of the universe. I’m wondering if that could count for all of these abnormalities. I know it is supposed to be a constant, but none of us were alive back to observe it so you never know.

1 posted on 01/18/2025 7:17:27 AM PST by Strict9

To: Strict9

What can’t climate change do?

2 posted on 01/18/2025 7:19:10 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)

To: Strict9

Math equations are just models of reality.

At the end of the day the universe can break all the laws it wants to...

What are scientists going to do—give the universe a speeding ticket?

Lol.

3 posted on 01/18/2025 7:19:46 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)

To: Strict9

That’s one conjecture, and many will argue cannot be true, also whether all our observations are actually skewed as referenced from being within a void of space time.

4 posted on 01/18/2025 7:23:05 AM PST by captmar-vell

To: cgbg

Yes. The Earth has been through so many cataclysms in its history and these are only the ones that we know about, why would the universe be any different? I always thought it was silly to take the universe as it is today and then wind it backwards to the beginning and hope that everything just kind of works out. We have no idea what happened since the formation till now. The scientific method is built upon observation and otherwise it’s just all guess work like you say.

5 posted on 01/18/2025 7:23:10 AM PST by Strict9

To: Strict9

So-called ‘smart’ people can be so stupid...

6 posted on 01/18/2025 7:24:22 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)

To: All

I hate modern popular writing it’s all hyperbole all the time. It doesn’t matter if its reporting on science, politics, or local news & weather. It’s difficult to get to the meat of the “story”. I know the goal is to get noticed and thus get read but the “we’re all gonna die” style is tiresome.

7 posted on 01/18/2025 7:27:07 AM PST by Reily (a)

To: logi_cal869

One would think these “smart people” would add that they are justing studying the subject, they really have no idea what is going on.

8 posted on 01/18/2025 7:29:29 AM PST by Jolla

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