Several scientists are saying that we need to change our understanding of the universe. The whole universe is actually skewed, with profound implications for our understanding of the natural world, because instead of a uniformly expanding cosmos that looks more or less the same anywhere you go, some experts are now suggesting that the whole universe is skewed.
Subir Sarkar, a professor at the University of Oxford, told New Scientist that he discovered evidence suggesting that our current understanding of cosmology is broken. Not everyone is on board.
Most of our colleagues don't want to hear about it, so we are in a very unenviable position.
The idea that the universe looks the same no matter where you go has been around since the 1500s. The way our own Milky Way moves through the universe could be interfering with our understanding of the rest.
Our relatively small number of known galaxies and the inability to know how far apart they are leaves room to speculate. It looks like all the others are running away from a single animal that slows down in a large herd. It is possible that the universe is expanding at a given rate from Earth.
Sarkar isn't the first to suggest that our current models don't work. New Scientist reported in 2020 that the universe appeared to be incompatible with accepted models of physics. A giant line of galaxies that broke rules and theories was found by the University of Central Lancashire's Alexia Lopez.
Accepting that our current theories might be broken would mean a massive rewrite of the existing theory. We know that our understanding of the natural world often looks wrong in retrospect.
NASA scientists were happy to see the spot wreckage from the Mars helicopter.
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