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Progress in Physics 2012
Discovery of Uniformly Expanding UniverseKeywords: supernovae magnitude-redshift data , dark energy , accelerating expansion of the universe Abstract: Saul Perlmutter and the Brian Schmidt – Adam Riess teams reported that their Friedmann-model GR-based analysis of their supernovae magnitude-redshift data revealed a new phenomenon of “dark energy” which, it is claimed, forms 73% of the energy/matter density of the present-epoch universe, and which is linked to the further claim of an accelerating expansion of the universe. In 2011 Perlmutter, Schmidt and Riess received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”. Here it is shown that (i) a generic model-independent analysis of this data reveals a uniformly expanding universe, (ii) their analysis actually used Newtonian gravity, and nally (iii) the data, as well as the CMB uctuation data, does not require “dark energy” nor “dark matter”, but instead reveals the phenomenon of a dynamical space, which is absent from the Friedmann model.
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