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RE: Weird Science! : Dark Energy and Supernovas! (Dark Energy Overturned?)

in #science8 years ago (edited)

My read of the data table included in the linked article is that they have knocked the confidence in accelerating expansion down a couple orders of magnitude and thus brought the theory back on par with steady expansion. Text books, especially at the undegrad level currently take Dark Energy and accelerating expansion for granted, and also claim that all Type Ia supernovae are uniform. The uniformity of standard candles is what DE rests on. One of these can no longer be said to be uniform.

The fact that supernovae are not uniform is what will need to be revised in the textbooks.
God forbid people look closer at our assumptions on Cepheid Variable stars ;)

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It also means: more fun for the future!

Got your DM on steemit.chat on my wrist watch (long story)...
My laptop crashed this morning. I have a backup of my keys but I'm not going to be able to edit this to add image credits until this evening at the earliest.
I will add them though. Didn't mean to not add them.

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