Date: 27/09/2017 13:06:48
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1123872
Subject: Hubble’s Contentious Constant

Hubble’s Contentious Constant

Thanks to astronomer Edwin Hubble and others, scientists have known since 1929 that our universe is expanding. Its current rate of expansion is called Hubble’s Constant (H0). There are two leading ways to measure H0, and for fifteen years, they more or less agreed with one another.

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Date: 27/09/2017 14:01:07
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1123892
Subject: re: Hubble’s Contentious Constant

If the accuracy of both methods continues to get better what will that mean?

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Date: 27/09/2017 14:46:53
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1123906
Subject: re: Hubble’s Contentious Constant

Tau.Neutrino said:


If the accuracy of both methods continues to get better what will that mean?

It will mean the nature of the relationship between the two measurements is not what they originally assumed.

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