Dr. Becky | Has JWST Solved the Crisis in Cosmology?
Last weekend the lead researcher of a group using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to calculate the current rate of expansion of the Universe (aka the Hubble constant, H0) presented their results for the first time at an American Physical Society meeting.
2024-04-11 22:00:00 - Dr. Becky
What they announced was not at all what everyone was expecting... DISCLAIMER: None of this work is published yet.
It has not been peer reviewed.
Take everything with a large pinch of scientific salt.
00:00 - Introduction
03:17 - AD Ground News
04:54 - What is the Hubble Tension (aka the "crisis in cosmology")?
07:40 - The possible explanations/solutions for the Hubble tension?
14:22 - What Freedman et al. are claiming to have found with JWST
18:32 - How does this compare to previous work on this with JWST?
20:30 - What now? Is the “crisis in cosmology” really over?
22:57 - Bloopers