{"id":98732,"date":"2019-11-18T12:42:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-measurements-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe-dont-add-up"},"modified":"2019-11-18T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:42:51","slug":"the-measurements-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe-dont-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-measurements-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe-dont-add-up","title":{"rendered":"The measurements of the expansion of the universe don\u2019t add up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-measurements-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe-dont-add-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of the universe, but their results do not coincide, which may make it necessary to update the cosmological model. \u201cIt\u2019s like trying to thread a cosmic needle,\u201d explains researcher Licia Verde of the University of Barcelona, co-author of an article on the implications of this problem.<\/p>\n<p>More than a hundred scientists met this summer at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California (U.S.) to try to clarify what is happening with the discordant data on the expansion rate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a>, an issue that affects the very origin, evolution and fate of our cosmos. Their conclusions have been published in <i>Nature Astronomy<\/i> journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem lies in the Hubble constant (H0), a parameter which value\u2014it is actually not a constant because it changes with time\u2014indicates how fast the Universe is currently expanding,\u201d points out cosmologist Licia Verde, an ICREA researcher at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICC-UB) and the main author of the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of the universe, but their results do not coincide, which may make it necessary to update the cosmological model. \u201cIt\u2019s like trying to thread a cosmic needle,\u201d explains researcher Licia Verde of the University of Barcelona, co-author of an article on the implications of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98732","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=98732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}