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Astrostatistician Alan Heavens on the expanding Universe, cosmological constant, and why our cosmological model may be incomplete.

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'So it seems there's something strange about our position: everything is moving away from us but this particular expansion law is not what it seems. It seems that we have a special place but, in fact, what it represents is just an overall expansion of the Universe. Any person on our galaxy would see everything else moving away from them according to Hubble's law. So although Hubble's law seems to suggest that we're at the centre, in fact, it's exactly the opposite.'

Alan Heavens, Professor of Astrostatistics, Imperial College London

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