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Hakeem Oluseyi

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StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Well, that's happened. I know of two cases where observation was made and it did not fit with the theory. I'll give you a very simple one. It was Art Walker's research when he first got the images. So when you see the pretty images of the sun with the plasma loops, Art did that first. Right. And so the plasma loops had a constant cross section.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Well, that's happened. I know of two cases where observation was made and it did not fit with the theory. I'll give you a very simple one. It was Art Walker's research when he first got the images. So when you see the pretty images of the sun with the plasma loops, Art did that first. Right. And so the plasma loops had a constant cross section.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

And so the solar physicists were like, dude, there's something wrong with your telescopes because we know magnetic fields diverge with altitude. So they should get fatter at the top. They're not getting fatter.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

And so the solar physicists were like, dude, there's something wrong with your telescopes because we know magnetic fields diverge with altitude. So they should get fatter at the top. They're not getting fatter.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Yeah, at the top, they should get fatter.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Yeah, at the top, they should get fatter.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

The theory said that, right? And Art was like, ain't nothing wrong with my telescopes, so what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna have the same pass band, but I'm gonna give you three different configuration telescopes. I'm gonna give you a Cassegrain, a Herschelian, and a Richie Cretien, so you can't say it's the optics. And not only that, so we would fly 16 to 22 telescopes,

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

The theory said that, right? And Art was like, ain't nothing wrong with my telescopes, so what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna have the same pass band, but I'm gonna give you three different configuration telescopes. I'm gonna give you a Cassegrain, a Herschelian, and a Richie Cretien, so you can't say it's the optics. And not only that, so we would fly 16 to 22 telescopes,

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

with all these passbands, which ended up being a subset of them, the same passbands on SDO and EIT, the solar satellites, and showed, no, this is what nature is doing. It's not an issue with the passbands. It's not an issue with the optics. This is what nature is doing. And now that's what everyone knows.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

with all these passbands, which ended up being a subset of them, the same passbands on SDO and EIT, the solar satellites, and showed, no, this is what nature is doing. It's not an issue with the passbands. It's not an issue with the optics. This is what nature is doing. And now that's what everyone knows.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

The theory had to be adjusted.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

The theory had to be adjusted.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

You had to come up with a mechanism. It can happen. So let's get back to Hubble Tension. Hubble Tension, right? So people have looked at that. There's been a lot of articles. There's been a lot of articles, right? And so essentially, and everybody wants to just throw out the Big Bang. Or throw out dark energy.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

You had to come up with a mechanism. It can happen. So let's get back to Hubble Tension. Hubble Tension, right? So people have looked at that. There's been a lot of articles. There's been a lot of articles, right? And so essentially, and everybody wants to just throw out the Big Bang. Or throw out dark energy.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Clickbait, yeah. Right, exactly. It's clickbait, right? So essentially what's been happening is you have the cosmic microwave background radiation, which has been a treasure trove of cosmological information. Then you have the standard way that we measure expansion. I have some object, I know- How fast it's moving? How fast it's moving away, it's redshift.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

Clickbait, yeah. Right, exactly. It's clickbait, right? So essentially what's been happening is you have the cosmic microwave background radiation, which has been a treasure trove of cosmological information. Then you have the standard way that we measure expansion. I have some object, I know- How fast it's moving? How fast it's moving away, it's redshift.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

And I also know its distance based on its brightness, right? And so now I can make a Hubble diagram. I fit the Planck data, I get a value of the Hubble constant.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

And I also know its distance based on its brightness, right? And so now I can make a Hubble diagram. I fit the Planck data, I get a value of the Hubble constant.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

I be saying stuff, don't you know, I be leaving stuff out, man.

StarTalk Radio
Hubble Trouble with Hakeem Oluseyi

I be saying stuff, don't you know, I be leaving stuff out, man.