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Physicists who want to ditch dark energy
The idea that mysterious stuff speeds up the acceleration of the universe could be a big mistake
Explore In 2011, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess for discovering that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. In a recent paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, a group of astrophysicists from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand questioned that Nobel Prize-winning finding. Analyses like the one in the new paper, depend a lot on their assumptions (priors) and the data used, and I would not be surprised if another group soon claims that Lambda cold dark matter is superior after all.
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