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The Crisis in Cosmology (youtube.com)
1 point by cmitsakis on Jan 23, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



TL;DR: two methods (cosmic microwave background, and cepheids) are used to measure the rate of expansion of the universe that give different results. The "Hubble tension" is this disgreement about this value. Recently a new method using the tip of the red-giant branch (TRGB) gave a value that is in the middle of the other two.


How big is the difference? How many percent? And how big are the error bars for each method?


the video shows the values at 19:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsISbFaJ0I&t=19m47s


Thanks. I didn't want to 20 minutes in the hope of maybe finding the answer...




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