Re:The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing p...
by boomboomsubban on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:14AM
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>No we don't - I assume you're thinking of dark energy, which is a separate and (as far as we know) unrelated phenomenon.
I was talking about the expansion of the universe that is still ongoing.
Inflation has observational data already, the radiation you mention, and much of the work done with particle accelerators is to recreate the conditions of these kinds of events. This is enough to make it science, even if completely wrong.
I thought of perhaps a simpler way to put this. The realm of science is the observable universe. We can use that to develop theories of events in our universe we can't observe, as there are still remnants in the observable universe. We can't develop theories of things that never happened in the observable universe though.
Maybe someday someone will develop some method to observe effects that would show evidence of a multiverse. It hasn't happened, and personally it seems unlikely.
I was talking about the expansion of the universe that is still ongoing.
Inflation has observational data already, the radiation you mention, and much of the work done with particle accelerators is to recreate the conditions of these kinds of events. This is enough to make it science, even if completely wrong.
I thought of perhaps a simpler way to put this. The realm of science is the observable universe. We can use that to develop theories of events in our universe we can't observe, as there are still remnants in the observable universe. We can't develop theories of things that never happened in the observable universe though.
Maybe someday someone will develop some method to observe effects that would show evidence of a multiverse. It hasn't happened, and personally it seems unlikely.