Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dark energy is in error

Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by flick on Monday January 06, 2020 @06:45PM (#21974886)

Not so fast. See [1] and [2] for an explanation. There are good reasons to suspect that there are errors made in this analysis.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02191

[2]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/no-dark-energy-no-chance-cosm...

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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by knzhou on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:10PM (#21975135)

Hold up, this is a different thing than what [1] and [2] are responding to.

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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by crazygringo on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:54PM (#21975506)

Yes, I'm totally lost. Was there accidental confusion here? Or is the new paper (by completely different authors) somehow building on those other papers and flick is implying it suffers from the same criticisms?

Would love to know if this is genuinely newsworthy or not.

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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by dannykwells on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:22PM (#21975234)

It would be pretty impressive indeed if [1] countered this article, since the Arxiv preprint came online 6 days later.

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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by ssivark on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:25PM (#21975267)

Thanks! It’s a little disingenuous/irresponsible on part of the phys.org article to not even mention the Rubin+Heitlauf rebuttal and the ensuing discussion, even though they’re from a month ago. EDIT: No wait, this OP is about a different paper from a week later... Hmm.... interesting times.

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