In the Dark

Last week was rather busy on the blog, with a run of posts about the Hubble constant (or, more precisely, the  present value of the Hubble parameter) attracting the most traffic. Somehow during all the excitement I allowed myself to be persuaded to write a piece for RTÉ Brainstorm about this issue. My brief is to write a detailed account of the current controversy in language accessible to a lay reader in not more than 800 words. That’s quite a challenge. Better get on with it.

Perhaps after that I’ll be able to lay the Hubble parameter to rest, at least for a while:

The original photograph (and joke) may be found here.

This entry was posted on July 22, 2019 at 12:53 pm and is filed under Uncategorized with tags Cosmology, H, Hubble constant, Hubble Parameter. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.