Something Is Not Quite Right In the Universe, Ultraprecise New Measurement Reveals

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By Mara Johnson-Groh, Live Science Contributor | February 8, 2019 07:13am ET

Something isn't quite right in the universe. At least based on everything physicists know so far. Stars, galaxies, black holes and all the other celestial objects are hurtling away from each other ever faster over time. Past measurements in our local neighborhood of the universe find that the universe is exploding outward faster than it was in the beginning. That shouldn't be the case, based on scientists' best descriptor of the universe.

If their measurements of a value known as the Hubble Constant are correct, it means that the current model is missing crucial new physics, such as unaccounted-for fundamental particles, or something strange going on with the mysterious substance known as dark energy.[5 Elusive Particles Beyond the Higgs | Quantum Physics]

Now, in a new study, published Jan. 22 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists have measured the Hubble Constant in an entirely new way, confirming that, indeed, the universe is expanding faster now than it was in its early days.

"Something interesting going on"
To explain how the universe went from a tiny, hot, dense speck of soupy plasma to the vast expanse we see today, scientists have proposed what's known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model. The model puts constraints on the properties of dark matter, a kind of matter that exerts gravitational pull but emits no light, and dark energy, which seems to oppose gravity. LCDM can successfully reproduce the structure of galaxies and the cosmic microwave background — the universe's first light — as well as the amount of hydrogen and helium in the universe. But it can't explain why the universe is expanding faster now than it did early on. [Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events]

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https://www.livescience.com/64724-hubble-constant-measured-precisely-with-quasars.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Everything is racing away from trump!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Ha ha hah ha, good one, really good one! nt

[Blue Owl]

5. But don't let him think he's the center of the universe!!!

[Wounded Bear]

6. I refuse to believe...

that Trump is the center of the universe. He might think so, but I don't.

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Every point is the center

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Another interesting article on the ever faster and faster expansion of the universe...

I'm going to bookmark and read more closely, this is an area of interest to me, especially as to why it is contrary to what the experts expected, even Einstein (although from what I understand, he was somewhat unsure about the constant). Considering that we're just into the first plus century of understanding the universe, I wouldn't be surprised if some key element(s) were not factored in yet (still unknown), or calculated into existing equations to come up w/ the anticipated or what the theories predict what the values should be. How exciting!

[LakeSuperiorView]

8. Right now, that the future is sucking harder seems to explian it for me...

[Chichiri]

9. Wanna read a great SF story on this subject, that will cause you to lose sleep?

"Last Contact" by Stephen Baxter.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080725045740/http://www.solarisbooks.com/books/newbookscifi/last-contact.asp

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10. New theories of understanding the universe

New theories of understanding the universe

They keep coming up with newer, more complicated theories about the universe.

Hell, I never understood the old, simplistic, now discredited, theories.