About this episode

This episode explores the Hubble Tension, a significant crisis in modern cosmology regarding the measurement of the universe's expansion rate.

In this episode, we investigate the "Hubble Tension"—the most significant crisis in modern cosmology. At the center of the mystery is the Hubble Constant , the number that defines how fast the universe is stretching. While measuring the pulse of the cosmos sounds straightforward, our two primary methods have reached a violent stalemate, suggesting that our fundamental understanding of physics might be "broken."

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