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I just want our universe to be cyclic, heat death is depressing
Even though I won't be there for it, somehow heat death makes me very sad.
The best moments in science are when we say, “wait, this doesn’t work.”
That's exactly the opposite of how religion works and the reason why I firmly believe that there should be a clear separation between state and church.
People can believe in whatever delusions they want as long as they don't force them on me.
Is it because our universe is actually some type of organism and it has growth in different areas more than others?
The summary is misleading. We have two ways of calculating expansion that, according to our current understanding, should arrive at the same answer, but they're off by about 10%. It's more a question of how we look than where.
Edit: corrected "title" to "summary"
I actually had no idea that an irregularly expanding universe was the conflicting theory.
From my armchair astrophysicist perspective, I just assumed it couldn't be a perfect sphere due to the background radiation map.
Obviously scientific method and all, but this is super cool that for realisies it might change some minds.
Yesssss I yearn for new physics
As a science bitch I’ve never believed in the Big Bang… I think everything has always been and will always be and it goes on forever in every direction and when I think about that my feet feel weird
The prospect of irregular and unpredictable physics gives me anxiety
This article https://nautil.us/chaos-makes-the-multiverse-unnecessary-236664/ made me very uncomfortable back when it was published. It takes what you say to the philosophical limit.
Neat
With the universe is not being locally real, and now this... Oh man. Exciting times for sure.
With the universe is not being locally real
What do you mean by this?
eli5 this universe not real thing. i can never wrap my head around it.
It's as real as anything gets. What constitutes as "real" is more of a philosophy questions than physics question. Make up your own answer.
Yes, discovery is awesome, and this is some crazy shit— it’s just that I prefer that the the rules that govern time and space make sense, lol.
It makes sense — we just don’t understand it yet 😀
Fine
I predict bubbles warping time but not space, thus distorting the apparent speeds of objects we see through them. Star Trek taught me that anything is possible. 😆
And just imagine the new fields of math such a discovery would create...
If something warps time, doesn't it inherently warp space, and vice versa?
Normally yes, but if an exception was found then that too would fundamentally change what we think we know. I doubt it will come down to anything quite that simple, but on the other hand gravity is one of those forces that we still don't completely understand and when dealing with things on a galactic scale perhaps this new observation will start to crack open that particular mystery. It's easy to speculate at this point, but really my hope is that this will lead to a better understanding of something huge. I think the most boring outcome of this would be something like "oops we made a mistake in our math."
“I’m just going to round it anyways” - Engineering
The Intel floating-point math error strikes again.
It's turtles all the way down.