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floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Scientists Propose We Live in a Slowly Rotating Universe That Completes One Rotation Every 500 Billion Years

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Scientists Propose We Live in a Slowly Rotating Universe That Completes One Rotation Every 500 Billion Years

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floofloof@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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A team of scientists has proposed a revolutionary idea to explain one of the greatest contradictions in our understanding of the universe: the discrepancy in measuring its rate of expansion, known as the Hubble Tension. According to a study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astro
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    I think that if space itself is what is rotating, then speed of light limit does not apply. But if it’s everything in the universe orbiting, as it were, a central point, then it would.

    But if it is space itself rotating, then that would suggest some objective frame of reference outside the universe. Wouldn’t it?

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      You might be onto something.

      “It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving!”

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