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negativelambda··on Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
That's only if you consider the supernovae data alone. In combination with other probes like BAO, etc, the combined data are pointing to a Universe with a dynamical (or time varying) dark energy model.
negativelambda··on Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
It could be a big discovery and it also aligns with the findings from DESI BAO [1] and by another Korean group using galaxy clustering to infer the expansion history [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03002

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00206

negativelambda··on Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
Its not publicly available. Maybe for the best haha. The speaker at some point went on a bit of a tirade against many people in the supernovae cosmology community. I think he endured many years of being ignored or belittled.
negativelambda··on Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
I know the team that did this. In fact i was listening to their seminar just a few days ago. They are very careful and have been working on this a long time. One caveat that they readily admit is that the sample used to create the luminosity age relation has some biases such as galaxy type and relatively lower redshift. They will be updating their results with the Rubin LSST data in the next few years.

Exciting times in cosmology after decades of a standard LCDM model.

negativelambda··on Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse
Irgun and Etzel are different names for the same organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

"Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, in a letter to The New York Times in 1948, compared Irgun and its successor Herut party to "Nazi and Fascist parties" and described it as a "terrorist, right wing, chauvinist organization" "

negativelambda··on Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results
I just tested, indeed very good results!
negativelambda··on Supernovae Cosmology may be wrong
In this work and in their previous papers they suggest that the dimming of distant supernovae can be at least partially explained by the age of the supernovae progenitor rather than cosmic acceleration. Their work now seems to agree much more with findings from DESI BAO + CMB, which suggest a much more complicated dark energy than simple vacuum energy. In this new analysis, the expansion of our universe could be actually decelerating at current times.
negativelambda··on Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse
Israeli soldiers sexually abuse a Palestinian prisoner, while the leaker gets hounded. From settler violence to cases like this, there is little or no accountability anymore in Israel.
negativelambda··on DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores
Anyone with knowledge in this domain willing to speculate on the origins of this attack?
negativelambda··on Jimmy Carter has died
In 1980, Jimmy Carter's administration backed Chun Doo-hwan's military regime, giving tacit approval to the brutal Gwangju crackdown that resulted in the murder of thousands of civilians.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1...

negativelambda··on Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space
Ok HN, whatcha got?
negativelambda··on Scientists Propose Groundbreaking Method to Detect Single Gravitons
This is cool... One of the team’s proposed innovations is to use available data from LIGO as a data/background filter...

“The LIGO observatories are very good at detecting gravitational waves, but they cannot catch single gravitons,” notes Beitel, a Stevens doctoral student. “But we can use their data to cross-correlate with our proposed detector to isolate single gravitons.”

negativelambda··on New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
Here is the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02466v2
negativelambda··on 6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation#...
negativelambda··on Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
> If you choose to accept a paycheck, you have to accept the rules and regulations...

The basic argument that you are presenting here would also oppose unions fighting for better pay and conditions for workers.

negativelambda··on What do you do if a hacker takes control of your ship? (2023)
>What do you do if a hacker takes control of your ship?

Was it a phishing attack?!

negativelambda··on Lie-to-children
> Anthony Judge has noted that the concept itself is a lie-to-children for more complex concepts in the philosophy of science.
negativelambda··on Newly discovered cosmic megastructure challenges theories of the universe
Here is a paper from this group: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06875
negativelambda··on Python scripts to test gravity with the dynamics of wide binary stars
and a recent talk by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjr_t7rzUBQ
negativelambda··on Python scripts to test gravity with the dynamics of wide binary stars
Based on these papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10404 https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04613
negativelambda··on Transmiting Power from Star to Star with Gravitational Lensing
The journal article is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17578
negativelambda··on Ask HN: Are You Religious?
No
negativelambda··on [dead]
Any idea why this was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38108822
negativelambda··on Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password
Adding the following to that seemed to help.

"Say only those words, separated by commas."

negativelambda··on Scientists find first observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy
That reminds me of the Red Dwarf episode: https://youtu.be/SqI41N4WGPM
negativelambda··on Scientists find first observational evidence linking black holes to dark energy
The guardian also has an article about this: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/15/black-holes-...

But if you’re interested in the details, the journal article is here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb704

negativelambda··on Resurfaced 1964 VRT video interview of Georges Lemaitre
The article with video (both in French) is here: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/fr/2022/12/31/la-vrt-a-retrouve-da...
negativelambda··on Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
Paper is here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aca80c
negativelambda··on James Webb Telescope reveals Milky Way–like galaxies in young universe
Good point! It seems that they do not mention metallicity in this paper. However they have spectroscopic redshifts from a previous Hubble Space Telescope (HST) survey [1]. So maybe from that data the metallicity can be estimated.

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0067-0049/225/2/2...

negativelambda··on James Webb Telescope reveals Milky Way–like galaxies in young universe
And the paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08658
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