
Ep. 639: Big Qs Update: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Etc.
Astronomy Cast
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The Supernove Timing and the Quasars
Supernove and quasars are measuring the expansion rate of the universe. The cosmological background radiation, which is first few hundred thousand years after the big bang, entitles two numbers that disagree with each other. This means it's looking more and more like there is something fundamentally wrong with how we're interpreting the data.
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