NO DARK ENERGY?

Just found this piece at Physics World online.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2016/oct/21/supernovae-analysis-finds-scant-evidence-for-dark-energy

I was at the conference when the SN/dark energy research was first presented at Dark Matter 98. If this 2016 analysis holds up and is further vindicated by future evidence, then the standard LCDM cosmological model has very serious problems.

Could it be that the standard paradigms of particle physics and cosmology have recently come under simultaneous sustained empirical assault? Dare one dream of progress beyond them? Could we avoid resorting to untestable Platonic just-so stories like string theory, supersymmetry, and multiverse matrices with 10^500 different stories, one for each ‘verse?

:)

RLO

http://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

Discrete Scale Relativity/Fractal Cosmology

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