{"id":17580,"date":"2020-11-13T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=17580"},"modified":"2020-11-13T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T02:06:00","slug":"horizon-is-everything-we-know-about-the-universe-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=17580","title":{"rendered":"Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner.<\/p>\n

Sasha Kashlinsky<\/a>, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: ‘It left us quite unsettled and jittery’ he says, ‘because this is not something we planned to find’. The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called ‘dark flow<\/a>‘ not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies – it also means that large numbers of scientists might have to find a new way of understanding the universe.<\/p>\n

Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have threatened to rewrite the textbooks. Does it herald a new era of understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong?<\/p>\n