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The Crisis in Cosmology
- cmitsakis 4y agoTL;DR: two methods (cosmic microwave background, and cepheids) are used to measure the rate of expansion of the universe that give different results. The "Hubble tension" is this disgreement about this value. Recently a new method using the tip of the red-giant branch (TRGB) gave a value that is in the middle of the other two.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoHow big is the difference? How many percent? And how big are the error bars for each method?
- cmitsakis 4y agothe video shows the values at 19:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsISbFaJ0I&t=19m47s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsISbFaJ0I&t=19m47s
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoThanks. I didn't want to 20 minutes in the hope of maybe finding the answer...