The Hubble Tension: The Biggest Crisis in Cosmology

🔎The Hubble tension is the conflict between the universe's expansion rate observed locally and inferred from the early universe.

🌌The James Webb Space Telescope's results have made the cosmological crisis worse, highlighting a flaw in our calculations or observations.

⚛️Resolving the Hubble tension would reveal new physics and revolutionize our understanding of the expanding universe.

🔭In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble's observations of galaxies moving away from us and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background laid the foundation for the Hubble tension.

🌟Seventy percent of the universe's expansion rate is still an unsolved mystery, and the James Webb Space Telescope's measurements will hopefully shed light on this.

What is the Hubble tension?

—The Hubble tension refers to the conflict between the universe's expansion rate observed locally and inferred from the conditions of the early universe.

What are the implications of the Hubble tension?

—The Hubble tension highlights a fundamental flaw in our understanding of the cosmos and suggests that there is something missing in our calculations or observations.

What did the James Webb Space Telescope confirm?

—The James Webb Space Telescope confirmed the existence of the Hubble tension, making the cosmological crisis worse.

What would resolving the Hubble tension mean?

—Resolving the Hubble tension would reveal new physics and revolutionize our understanding of the expanding universe.

What did Edwin Hubble discover?

—Edwin Hubble's observations of galaxies moving away from us and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background laid the foundation for the understanding of the Hubble tension.

00:00The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the Hubble tension, highlighting a fundamental flaw in our understanding of the cosmos.

01:25Edwin Hubble's observations of galaxies moving away from us and the discovery of the cosmic microwave background laid the foundation for the understanding of the Hubble tension.

03:55The James Webb Space Telescope's measurements have made the cosmological crisis worse, raising questions about our calculations or observations.

05:49Seventy percent of the universe's expansion rate is still an unsolved mystery, and the James Webb Space Telescope's measurements will hopefully shed light on this.

09:42The Hubble tension refers to the conflict between the universe's expansion rate observed locally and inferred from the conditions of the early universe.