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Buzz Bloom
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- TL;DR Summary
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https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discovery-dark.html
January 6, 2020
New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error
The reference in the summary refers to an article which has been recently accepted by The Astrophysical Journal. A draft version of the article dated December 10, 2019 is
The content of the draft article is way over my head, so I am hoping that participants in the PFs can provide some relatively simple "I" level evaluation of the conclusion that dark energy does not exist. As I understand this, it means that the cosmological constant is zero, and the average mass density of baryonic and dark matter is about five times larger than previously thought.