[Strict9]

I read once from an astronomer that there was a theory that the speed of light has slowed down since the formation of the universe. I’m wondering if that could count for all of these abnormalities. I know it is supposed to be a constant, but none of us were alive back to observe it so you never know.

[rktman]

What can’t climate change do?

[cgbg]

Math equations are just models of reality.

At the end of the day the universe can break all the laws it wants to...

What are scientists going to do—give the universe a speeding ticket?

Lol.

[captmar-vell]

That’s one conjecture, and many will argue cannot be true, also whether all our observations are actually skewed as referenced from being within a void of space time.

[logi_cal869]

So-called ‘smart’ people can be so stupid...

[Reily]

I hate modern popular writing it’s all hyperbole all the time. It doesn’t matter if its reporting on science, politics, or local news & weather. It’s difficult to get to the meat of the “story”. I know the goal is to get noticed and thus get read but the “we’re all gonna die” style is tiresome.

[fso301]

I read once from an astronomer that there was a theory that the speed of light has slowed down since the formation of the universe. I’m wondering if that could count for all of these abnormalities. I know it is supposed to be a constant, but none of us were alive back to observe it so you never know.

So there isn't going to be a Big Crunch?

At the end of the day, many scientists are grappling with how to explain the origin of the universe in such a way that it did not have a single beginning.

[Leaning Right]

> Our Universe is expanding faster than science can explain… <

My cat, Mr. Whiskers, claims to have found the solution to that problem. But since he doesn’t have a PhD from some fancy university, no one will listen.

[4Runner]

Does anyone realize what kind of distance 320 million light years represents?

No, a light year is not a measure of time, but of distance.

It's the distance light travels in one year at 186,000 miles per second.

How many seconds are in a year?

Do that calculation, then multiply the result by 186,000.

The result is the distance light travels in one year.

Then figure what the distance would be for 320 million of them.

There are some things we are just not designed to truly comprehend.

[BipolarBob]

Our Universe is expanding faster than science can explain, sending physics into "crisis" mode

You people aren't taking this serious enough. I'm hyperventilating as I read this.

[SaxxonWoods]

Scientists are always so sure about everything right up until they discover they are wrong.

[martin_fierro]

[Getready]

Another daily physics crisis. Threatening to upset our understanding of the universe. Textbooks will have to be rewritten. DeGrasse says it’s all a simulation anyway. What me worry?
I would think the next convocation of physicists should have as its main topics, the following: What physical parameters are always true all the time? What physics models have no objections? Where, in time, does our ability to observe an event stop?
Is it true that the key to the past is the present?

[TalBlack]

What if things are still in the acceleration phase? How would we even know?

[enumerated]

Each time I hear the world’s top physicists change their minds about how fast the universe is expanding, or how much it’s curved, or where, when and how the Big Bang originated - whether there even was a big bang - I chuckle to myself and think - jeez.. these guys don’t know what the f they are talking about.

[Waverunner]

If only the scientists understood the gravity of the situation, they would redouble their efforts to solve this problem. E=mcc2

[aimhigh]

I read once from an astronomer that there was a theory that the speed of light has slowed down since the formation of the universe.

My first thought also.

[aquila48]

I guess we have to go beyond “dark matter” and invent “mysterious matter”

[Bratch]

[GOPJ]

Is this anothr one of those “problems” that will be solved if we give money to nutty liberal ‘elites’?

[clearcarbon]

"Our Universe is expanding faster than science can explain"

I recall something from physics about the speed of light changing with the media it travels in.