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576 Physicists Find Possible Errors In 100-Year-Old Model of the Universe

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · today 03:00 EDT

Physicists Find Possible Errors In 100-Year-Old Model of the Universe

A trio of preprint papers suggests the universe may not be perfectly uniform on the largest scales, finding tentative 2-to-4-sigma deviations from a core assumption of standard cosmology known as FLRW geometry. Live Science reports: The work combines observations of distant exploding stars and large-scale galaxy surveys to probe whether the universe truly follows a nearly 100-year-old mathematical framework known as Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology. The analyses revealed mild-but-intrigu

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