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James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe

www.livescience.com James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe

Depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed that the observation is not down to a measurement error.

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TLDR: Depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. We can now confirm it's not measurement error.
- It's not a matter of where we look, it's the method we use to calculate the expansion. The 2 methods to calculate the expansion rate give us different results. For a good explanation, here is a YouTube playlist of videos by Dr. Becky Smethurst where she discusses & explains the "Crisis in Cosmology": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUf5TRqYoMYxEwjT6JIDW4Zn
- Oh. Well. That's. Terrifying?
  
  Uh, why?
  
  I'm afraid of things I can't understand.
  
  You can make a religion out of that!
  
  don't worry, we're expanding with it!
  
  I'm not expanding! It's just my big bones, y'know!

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