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At least The Guardian has a comment from an independent expert: "Prof Carlos Frenk, a cosmologist at the University of Durham, who was not involved in the late
by jampekka 1y ago
At least The Guardian has a comment from an independent expert:
"Prof Carlos Frenk, a cosmologist at the University of Durham, who was not involved in the latest work, said the findings were worthy of attention. “It’s definitely interesting. It’s very provocative. It may well be wrong,” he said. “It’s not something that you can dismiss. They’ve put out a paper with tantalising results with very profound conclusions.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/06/universe-expansion-slowing-not-accelerating-nobel-prize https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/06/universe-exp...
- HeinzStuckeIt 1y agoAs an academic, that is exactly what the kind of noncommittal, don’t burn your bridges with colleagues and funding bodies thing that I would say about even clearly flawed research if I were put on the spot by a popular-press publication. In fact, if you know you can rebut flawed research in time, you might want to assist in hyping it first so that your rebuttal will then make a bigger splash and benefit your personal brand.
- ImPostingOnHN 1y agoIt's also something you could say if you forgot to read the assignment and the professor called on you.
- piker 1y ago"It makes some profound points, yes. What if? BUT what if not?"
- mr_mitm 1y agoI read it as "I recognize some of the names and the abstract doesn't sound like complete nonsense".
- p00dles 1y agoThat guy should start a PR firm
- jameslk 1y agoThis sounds like something George Costanza would say