https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/astro-ph_9812133/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42679290urn:hackerpapers:mention:astro-ph_9812133:42679290Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:09:43 GMT<p>Oh please. Do you really think the people who won the nobel prize for this discovery have a grade school level understanding of speed? You seem to be talking about peculiar velocities, which are absolutely negligible on cosmological scales and only the velocity caused by the expansion of spacetime is relevant. What they really did was measure the distances and redshifts of dozens of supernovae and looked which energy contents of the universe could explain the observed relationship assuming that the Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric accurately describes the universe. Turns out you need…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/astro-ph_9812133/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph