Comments on: The Brilliant “Blunder” That Led to a Nobel Prize http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2011/10/06/from-einsteins-blunder-to-this-years-nobel-prize/ Fri, 24 May 2013 22:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Igor Fodor http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2011/10/06/from-einsteins-blunder-to-this-years-nobel-prize/#comment-9 Igor Fodor Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:13:02 +0000 http://discoverblogs.sixfeetup.com/crux/?p=58#comment-9 I would disagree that Einstein's "blunder" led to this year's physics Nobel Prize. After all, we used successfully so far general realtivity theory for calculating gravitational collapse and black holes! However, accepted cosmological model says that the universe consists of 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter and only 5% "normal" matter. One of the authors of the article in „Science“ from 28th May 1999, this year's Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter, wrote at that time: „The universe consists largely from the dark matter and dark energy, and we do not know, what either of the both is“. As it seems, in any case, it's not so much the discovery as such, but much more the courage to admit, that actually we have no idea what dark matter & dark energy might be. Could it be that the standard model of cosmology doesn't hold water? Didn't this year's Nobel prize sealed the end of the contemporary cosmology, or rather the end of the Big Bang? It confirmed that we may never find out, how the universe originated, since the accelerated expansion smeares all the tracks, see the article „The end of cosmology?“ from Lawrence Krauss & Robert Scherrer in „Scientific American“ from 25th Feb. 2008. And Bruce Dorminey wrote in „Scientific American“ from 30th Dec. 2010 an article „Reliance on indirect evidence fuels dark matter doubts“. I would disagree that Einstein’s “blunder” led to this year’s physics Nobel Prize. After all, we used successfully so far general realtivity theory for calculating gravitational collapse and black holes! However, accepted cosmological model says that the universe consists of 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter and only 5% “normal” matter.
One of the authors of the article in „Science“ from 28th May 1999, this year’s Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter, wrote at that time: „The universe consists largely from the dark matter and dark energy, and we do not know, what either of the both is“.
As it seems, in any case, it’s not so much the discovery as such, but much more the courage to admit, that actually we have no idea what dark matter & dark energy might be.

Could it be that the standard model of cosmology doesn’t hold water? Didn’t this year’s Nobel prize sealed the end of the contemporary cosmology, or rather the end of the Big Bang? It confirmed that we may never find out, how the universe originated, since the accelerated expansion smeares all the tracks, see the article „The end of cosmology?“ from Lawrence Krauss & Robert Scherrer in „Scientific American“ from 25th Feb. 2008. And Bruce Dorminey wrote in „Scientific American“ from 30th Dec. 2010 an article „Reliance on indirect evidence fuels dark matter doubts“.

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