Comment Lecture by Subir Sarkar (Score 2) 87
The corresponding author is Subir Sarkar.
He is a professor at Oxford who has done some interesting work about the expansion of the universe is NOT accelerating.
Instead, he is saying that there is a dipole effect because earth, and the galaxy cluster that we are in, are all moving in space, and that gives the effect of accelerating expansion!
He provides compelling evidence (for a non-specialist at least) for what he says and also casts doubts on the evidence for acceleration by analyzing their data (supernovae as standard candles, and their red shift), since a dipole effect is observed on that.
If his hypothesis is confirmed by other research and observations, then the 2011 Nobel Prize for Saul Perlmutter and Adam Reiss maybe for nothing
Watch his lecture on Beyond The Cosmological Standard Model.
This latest paper is yet another analysis towards that.
Let us see which hypothesis is supported by the evidence, current and future