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Re:New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all by jbotz on Friday November 29, 2019 @11:45AM (#21665327)
Oh yeah, toward the end of the article it does mention that... but those results by Adam Riess are unpublished, so it's just a spurious claim by a guy with a lot of vested interest for now.
Re:New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all by empath75 on Friday November 29, 2019 @01:13PM (#21665888)
Why do you think he has a vested interest? If he could get similar, convincing results on a larger data set, that would be a career-making paper. It’s not like there is a dark energy industry trying to cover up a hoax.
Re:New research: Dark Energy might not exist after all by jbotz on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:14AM (#21681233)
"Vested interest" doesn't have to be financial. They are not going to take away his Nobel price if it turns out that the expansion of the Universe is not accelerating, but nobody wants to spend the rest of their life saying "I got a Nobel price for X, but it turns out X was wrong." That's some pretty heavy psychological "vested interest", I think.