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Why Scientists Can't Agree On The Age Of The Universe - Featuring Dr. Becky | Answers With Joe

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Astrophysicists are currently struggling to explain an inconsistency that has become a cosmological crisis, and it has to do with the Hubble Constant, which determines the expansion of the universe.

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Planck satellite observations point to it possibly being a sphere
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2222159-cosmological-crisis-we-dont-know-if-the-universe-is-round-or-flat/

https://www.wired.com/story/cosmology-is-in-crisis-over-how-to-measure-the-universe/

PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72cM_E6bsOs

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-dispute-over-a-single-number-became-a-cosmological-crisis/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-wrinkle-added-to-cosmologys-hubble-crisis-20200226/
Proposes a third way to measure

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