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I saw it floating around Twitter with some expansive commentary "This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology. The Dark Energy model of the universe, whi
by necubi 2y ago
I saw it floating around Twitter with some expansive commentary "This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology. The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong.", etc.
For whatever reason, engineers really hate dark energy and will glom onto any fringe theory that appears to disprove it. Not to psychoanalyze too much, but it seems to be a topic where non-experts get to feel like they're smarter than those PhD cosmologists because they watched a Sabine Hossenfelder video.
See literally any thread about dark energy (or dark matter, which elicits similar reactions) on HN.
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