Matt Gialich
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And we have no fucking idea why.
We don't know why it's accelerating.
So there's two ways you can look at this.
You can either say, well, probably three actually.
The universe is expanding.
Our understanding of physics is fundamentally incorrect.
Our understanding of how to take these scientific measurements is incorrect.
I think we understand how to take scientific instruments.
I think you have to say, is our basic thesis for physics correct or are we missing something?
And I think there's a lot of holes in our modern way of physics, but it does a really good job of explaining all the phenomenon that we witnessed today and we see here.
And it kind of falls apart at the super small and the super large.
And we don't know why, but it's really, really interesting to go talk to some of these people that are going and trying to solve these problems and the math they do and the way they look at this.
You know, Kip Thorne's discovery of gravity waves was essentially just math equations.
And he said, like, hmm, I see this in mathematics.
I should be able to see it.
And here's how I think we would be able to see it.
And that's pretty fucking cool, man, that we can go from that level of understanding of math and make observations that then 20 years later we can detect as gravity waves, right, and see these experimental results.
And so is the universe expanding?
We observe it to be expanding.
Is it or is it not?