The Crisis in Cosmology

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a clear, layman-friendly explanation of the Hubble tension from a channel regarded well by physicists.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

PBS Space Time

Topic

hubble tension

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• Your example of looking at a problem from more than one angle made me think of the problem of finding the Hubble constant that describes the rate of expansion of the universe. There are two recent methods which have different estimates for this rate of …

• The shockwaves are everywhere - you, right now, are in a density node. Inflation wasn’t something that happened from a single point - it happened as a result of vacuum collapse, spontaneously, all over the place. Some of these inflationary zones went much faster than …

• I believe they’re referring to the “crisis in cosmology”. I’m purely a layman, but I found some videos useful. I believe at least PBS Space-Time [1] is well regarded in physics circles (for laymen explanations.). I found the other one [2] to be more digestible …