October 28th 16, 07:18 PM
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New survey casts doubt on supernova evidence for Dark Energy
On 10/28/2016 12:54 PM, Steve Willner wrote:
In article ,
Yousuf Khan writes:
https://astronomynow.com/2016/10/21/...rate-or-is-it/
The actual article is open access at
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep35596
The key result is shown in Figure 2 of the article. Dark energy
being zero requires low matter density and therefore a curved
universe. That seems to be ruled out by the CMB fluctuations, which
show the universe to be very nearly flat.
In Fig 2, flat would be represented by a straight line from (0,1) to
(0.8,0.2), i.e., the sum of the two Omegas is equal to 1.
So what's your interpretation of these figures?
Yousuf Khan
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