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(47,953 posts) Fri Apr 15, 2016, 05:59 PM Apr 2016

The Universe is expanding faster than the laws of physics can explain [View all]

The most precise measurement ever made of the current rate of expansion of the Universe has been achieved by physicists in the US, and there’s a problem: the Universe is expanding 8 percent faster than our current laws of physics can explain.

If confirmed by independent tests, this new measurement will force us to rethink how dark matter and dark energy have been influencing the evolution of the Universe for the past 13.8 billion years, and that means something in the standard model of particle physics has to change.

"I think that there is something in the standard cosmological model that we don't understand," lead researcher Adam Riess from Johns Hopkins University, who also co-discovered dark energy back in 1998, told Davide Castelvecchi at Nature.

So… wtf just happened? Well, right now, physicists explain the gradual expansion of the Universe - which has been in effect since the Big Bang - by the presence of dark matter and dark energy.

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http://www.sciencealert.com/the-universe-is-expanding-faster-than-the-laws-of-physics-can-explain?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1

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The Universe is expanding faster than the laws of physics can explain [View all] n2doc Apr 2016 OP

It is just trying to get as far as possible from this planet. LiberalArkie Apr 2016 #1

But that's what can't be explained - since this planet sucks so bad. eomer Apr 2016 #3

If I were truly an Evil Bernie Bro I would explain.... daleanime Apr 2016 #7

PORTALS! PORTALS TO DEMONIC REALMS! Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #19

first 4 replies are SO Duzy worthy. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2016 #34

WHO FARTED? Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #2

Why does beer always get the blame? Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2016 #18

Message auto-removed Name removed Apr 2016 #4

found the Velikovskite! MisterP Apr 2016 #5

So, you're smarter than thousands of astrophysicists? Maedhros Apr 2016 #10

We know that space-time itself can travel faster than light, correct? sakabatou Apr 2016 #6

It would have to, without space-time you would have no light, therefor space-time must precede light Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #8

So in essence, it's saying that it's speeding up more than current models sakabatou Apr 2016 #14

Perhaps dark matter is space and dark energy is time? Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #22

That'd be weird. sakabatou Apr 2016 #24

Ah, nope. Duppers Apr 2016 #25

Be the ball Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #27

:D Duppers Apr 2016 #30

I loved that movie. Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #32

Stop posting now please, you are making my tiny little brain hurt. nt cstanleytech Apr 2016 #33

Big deal, so is my waistline... Thor_MN Apr 2016 #9

This obviously means that Gravity is a hoax. mn9driver Apr 2016 #11

Damn you, I just banged my head on the ceiling ToxMarz Apr 2016 #15

i thought guth already explained this saturnsring Apr 2016 #12

Expanding or inflating? There is difference and it matters. Nothing in the universe has ever Augiedog Apr 2016 #13

Wow. I was just having this thought that the universe is itsrobert Apr 2016 #20

If teh universe DOES expand like a beachball dixiegrrrrl Apr 2016 #35

What they've measured is current expansion muriel_volestrangler Apr 2016 #23

It's all a practical joke by The Great Attractor..... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2016 #16

Too many donuts n/t LiberalEsto Apr 2016 #17

I'm waiting for someone to blame this on gluten. n/t Silent3 Apr 2016 #21

Annie Hall recall no_hypocrisy Apr 2016 #26

Ignoring the obvious explanation? Califonz Apr 2016 #28

That is not accurate. The rate of expansion can be "explained" with a certain value of cosmological thereismore Apr 2016 #29

+10 Duppers Apr 2016 #31