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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by ncmncm on Monday January 06, 2020 @08:05PM (#21975603)
I don't know of any other evidence for dark energy, other than that mathematical physicists think the equations would be prettier with some, although they sort of wish there was more. It is quite embarrassing that the value was so close to zero without being zero, so that might be one embarrassment less.

We already knew there was likely to be something fishy about the most distant supernovas, because we have two divergent values for the Hubble constant, one of them based on these same supernovas.

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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by ailideex on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:23AM (#21977790)
> I don't know of any other evidence for dark energy, other than that mathematical physicists think the equations would be prettier with some, although they sort of wish there was more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy#Evidence_of_existe...

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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by AnimalMuppet on Monday January 06, 2020 @08:15PM (#21975691)
Hmm. Is this new result in the right direction to solve the Hubble Constant problem?
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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by ncmncm on Monday January 06, 2020 @08:21PM (#21975737)
Haha, it would be fun if we now have three Hubble constants.
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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by trhway on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:30AM (#21977833)
my personal favorite value for the Hubble constant is the "c" divided by the age of Universe, it results in 70.8 km/s/Mpc, right in the middle of the other 2 established Hubble constant's values, a very nice coincidence that the objects at the Universe age distance are running away exactly with "c".
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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:19PM (#21986827)
A coincidence? I think it might be an identity.

But that would mean that disputes about the value of the Hubble Constant are also disputes about the age of the universe, and vice versa.

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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by ncmncm on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @04:56PM (#21996221)
Right, and that has been revised a few times recently.
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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by mindcrime on Monday January 06, 2020 @08:32PM (#21975797)
https://xkcd.com/927/
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