Scientists have done some re-analysis of the ground-breaking Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data which has been so important for cosmologists, and their re-assessment suggests that some of the interpretations of the data were off, thereby casting doubt on the entire standard cosmological model which includes the concept of dark energy. In other words, this new reassessment indicates that dark energy – which has never been actually observed, only theorized – might not exist after all.
If that’s the case, then the fact that the expansion of the universe is accelerating is due to something else. Possibly the theory of gravitation, which has not changed significantly since Newton’s time, needs to be fundamentally reworked.
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