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In 2011, three physicists won the Nobel Prize for showing that the expansion of the universe speeds up, which is usually attributed to aa mysterious type of energy called “dark energy”. But last year, though, a different group published research showing that universal expansion isn’t actually getting faster. Since then, the two groups have engaged in a whole bunch of back-and-forth refuting each other’s claims and now a third one has chimed in. Let’s take a look.
The Nobel Prize winning papers: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/307221
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/300499
The original paper criticising the Nobel Prize winners:
academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988?login=false
The rebuttal: academic.oup.com/mnras/article/549/3/stag797/8703725?login=false
The rebuttal of the rebuttal: arxiv.org/abs/2605.21586
And the related paper that supports the Nobel Prize criticism: academic.oup.com/mnras/article/549/3/stag844/8701424?login=false
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In 2011, three physicists won the Nobel Prize for showing that the expansion of the universe speeds up, which is usually attributed to aa mysterious type of energy called “dark energy”. But last year, though, a different group published research showing that universal expansion isn’t actually getting faster. Since then, the two groups have engaged in a whole bunch of back-and-forth refuting each other’s claims and now a third one has chimed in. Let’s take a look.
The Nobel Prize winning papers: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/307221
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/300499
The original paper criticising the Nobel Prize winners:
academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988?login=false
The rebuttal: academic.oup.com/mnras/article/549/3/stag797/8703725?login=false
The rebuttal of the rebuttal: arxiv.org/abs/2605.21586
And the related paper that supports the Nobel Prize criticism: academic.oup.com/mnras/article/549/3/stag844/8701424?login=false
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