Matt Kirshen

Where's my opinion rank amongst?

Why doesn't someone with almost no science training weigh as much in this as a leading scientist?

It's just not fair.

I'm busy that day.

We'll delay it.

I can move it.

If it's important, I can move it, but I'd rather not.

So if you need to put that out, do you?

Oh, because I don't feel like I have any seniority on this show.

I wanted to be your knave.

Does this make me a knave?

I don't know.

Squire, I'll take that.

I have to put your mortarboard and your gown on you and just send you off to battle?

So yeah, there's some great questions as always sent in by your Patreon subscribers.

So Hannah Cantley from the City of Roses, Portland, Oregon says, could the effects of dark energy on space-time geometry potentially arising from entropic forces complicate our ability to measure distances to distant galaxies, especially considering that their apparent recession speeds may exceed the speed of light due to the expansion of space and this might necessitate new models and techniques to account for these influences.

Alyssa says, there is still a gap between how fast the universe is expanding based on nearby measurements versus predictions from the early universe.

Based on your work, do you think this means we're missing something in how we measure it?

Or could it mean our current model of the universe needs to change?

And Alyssa also says, thank you for being a badass woman of science.