{"id":100699,"date":"2020-01-11T09:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T17:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/a-new-study-claims-to-disprove-dark-energy-but-cosmologists-arent-convinced"},"modified":"2020-01-11T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T17:25:48","slug":"a-new-study-claims-to-disprove-dark-energy-but-cosmologists-arent-convinced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/a-new-study-claims-to-disprove-dark-energy-but-cosmologists-arent-convinced","title":{"rendered":"A New Study Claims to Disprove Dark Energy\u2014but Cosmologists Aren\u2019t Convinced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-study-claims-to-disprove-dark-energy-but-cosmologists-arent-convinced2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be really, really exciting if a single observation could completely overturn astrophysicists\u2019 current understanding of the universe. But that hasn\u2019t happened yet, at least with regards to dark energy.<\/p>\n<p>This week, <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discovery-dark.html\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discovery-dark.html\">a press release<\/a> proclaimed that \u201cnew evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error,\u201d garnering some attention from astronomers and riling up science skeptics. But scientists have already identified some issues with the paper\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be really, really exciting if a single observation could completely overturn astrophysicists\u2019 current understanding of the universe. But that hasn\u2019t happened yet, at least with regards to dark energy. This week, a press release proclaimed that \u201cnew evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}