Several “renowned astronomers” will gather at London's Royal Society (Britain's National Academy of Sciences) to “question some of the most fundamental aspects of our understanding of the universe.” futurism:
As The Guardian reports, cosmology luminaries are reconsidering some fundamental assumptions about the universe, right down to the more than century-old theory that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. I'm going to do it. “In cosmology, we use a model that was first formulated in 1922,” he said, referring to the year Russian astronomer Alexander Friedman outlined the possibility of cosmic expansion based on Einstein's general theory. In an apparent reference, co-organizer and Oxford cosmologist Subir Sarkar told the paper. of the theory of relativity. “We have great data, but the rationale is past its sell-by date,” he added. “More and more people are saying the same thing, but they're respected astronomers.”
Many researchers have found evidence that the universe may be expanding more rapidly in some regions than in others, and megastructures have a significant impact on the growth of the universe. This raises the interesting possibility that it may be possible. For example, Sarkar and his colleagues have studied more than a million quasars, suggesting that the universe is “biased.” Quasars are active nuclei of galaxies whose gas and dust are swallowed by supermassive black holes.
The article points out that another theory, which has been used for decades, is that the so-called cosmological constant “actually varies throughout space.”
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