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submitted 1 year ago by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/science@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1721793

The article introduces a dynamic cosmological constant in the current ΛCDM cosmological model to account for some data from the James Webb telescope. The new model would have the age of the universe at ~27 billion years.

This is interesting. Unfortunately some popular science magazines are already presenting it as a fact...

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[-] FlowVoid@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

If a mathematical model has no constants then it can describe any dataset...

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