[mattdono]

Of course, this has been mine personal position for years. It’s finally nice to see the scientific community getting on board.
[mattdono darts eyes left and right]

[InterceptPoint]

Actually this is an intriguing idea - anything that gets rid of Dark Matter or Dark Energy in our model of the universe is a plus. So I kind of like it.

[trad_anglican]

One potential issue with this idea is that it might require a big coincidence.

One man's coincidence is another's plan.

[Nosterrex]

Atheists and Darwinians build their views on faith, not scientifically verifiable evidence. Dark energy and dark matter are leaps of faith, for there is no scientific evidence that these actually exist. Now we are to believe that what we thought that we were seeing and measuring were not real, but only illusions. There goes the whole theory of verificationism. It turns out that empiricalism is an illusion. Maybe Hume was right in that cause and effect are illusions, too. If so, then science is a religion based upon unverifiable faith.

[Dahoser]

The paper for those so inclined :

A one parameter family of expanding wave solutions of the Einstein equations that induces an anomalous acceleration into the Standard Model of Cosmology

(I do not understand a single word, but I know from previous articles that there are many in these parts who do.)

[mikrofon]

Gnarly, dude!

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

So now it’s goodbye to “dark energy.” Do we have to say goodbye to “dark matter” too? Or does that stay?

Question for cosmologists. The expanding wave is a wave of WHAT?
Don’t say “spacetime” because space is what you have when you remove all matter,
and time is assigning numbers to the motion of bodies, so “spacetime” does not refer to any reality.

I never did like the big bang + expanding universe + dark matter story. I like this one better, but in 50 years they will find that it too is not the answer.

[Yo-Yo]

So Dark Energy goes the way of aether?

[Oldpuppymax]

Soooooo does this mean you can only see the wave from the SHALLOW end of the pool?

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[AFPhys]

Well, this makes more sense than the fudge factor of dark energy (and dark matter). However, I still hold that the truth is that G is NOT a perfect reciprocal with respect to distance, and instead has an inverse linear component.

[allmost]

"It just seems like an unnatural correction to the equations - it's like a fudge factor," Temple told SPACE.com. "The equations don't make quite as much physical sense when you put it in. You just put it in to fit the data."

Mr Temple says this about dark matter. It also describes his theory though. What is the mechanism here? It sounds as though the authors are suggesting antigravity or merely regurgitating Einstein's Cosmological Constant and giving it a positive value. Nothing new there.

[AndrewC]

This big wave, initiated after the Big Bang that is thought to have sparked the universe, could explain why objects today appear to be farther away from us than they should be according to the Standard Model of cosmology.

I dub this the "Big Fart".