Dark Energy Questioned and It’s Not Big NEWS!?
J. T. Nielsen and colleagues have published an intriguing paper showing that an improved statistical analysis of roughly 7 times more type-1a supernova data than was used to “discover” Dark Energy calls the older empirical evidence for Dark Energy into question. They are respected scientists and they published in a Nature journal.
“Marginal evidence for cosmic acceleration from Type Ia supernovae”
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep35596
Why is there so little media discussion of this possibly game-changing result for the field of cosmology? The standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model (LCDM) has dominated cosmological thinking for decades and is inextricably entwined with the concept of Dark Energy. If the research of Nielsen et al. is vindicated by more empirical evidence in the near future, cosmology will have been thrown into crisis.
It is bizarre that this potential game-changer has only been reported in two minor pieces in the scientific media. What gives? Is the problem that it is not the answer that people (and especially cosmologists/physicists) want?
RLO