
What's the best way to measure the expansion of the Universe?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Different Ways to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
cosmetologists are all unified and they're telling us the same story so they don't have a problem. They just want to cover up these blemishes with more makeup that's all. Well you just kind of confuse me because it seems like there's different things giving us different stories. So we don't understand why the early universe measurements like the cosmic microwave background radiation tells a different story about the expansion than the late measurements such as distance ladders. We can measure from the wrinkles on it how much it was expanding back then and we get a different number.
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