Equation 13 · Part 1 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Precision Cosmology
Symbol r_*
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…physics used to convert it into could in principle be incomplete — an early form of dark energy, extra relativistic species, or modified matter behavior before recombination could each shift the inferred and thus without Planck’s raw measurement being wrong. No single proposed fix currently resolves the tension without introducing tension with some other, independent dataset. As of this writing the honest summary is not “here is the answer” but “the disagreement is real, well-measured on…
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