The hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding, has perplexed astronomers for many years. Myriad of measurement methods keep pouring in, but they don’t quite fit in. But now, two powerful and independent methods have refined its measurement to unprecedented precision and these leave us some of the most basic understandings about the universe in doubt.
The video keeps on saying that we measure velocity of recession, but that is not precisely true. What is measured is that electromagnetic radiation loses energy as it travels from distant galaxies to ours. At the time Hubble discovered the loss, the only explanation was the Relativistic Doppler shift.
We now have a second explanation: the dark energy that fills all of space can interact with light, and absorb energy from it as it moves toward us. If the energy loss is proportional to the frequency, then the distance dependency would be just as is observed.
This would return us to a static model of the universe. We then need to explain the microwave background radiation. Not so hard: it could be the energy stolen from stellar radiation.
What must be noted is that much of the history of the universe offered in the video is contradicted. It’s all undermined when the assumption of the expanding universe is discarded.
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So the monkeys living on one rock spinning around one ball of fire dont quite understand how the entire universe works? Shocker !
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