It's supposed to be the "gold standard" of evidence supporting the standard model of cosmology – including dark matter, dark energy and the exponential expansion after the big bang known as inflation.
But could it be wrong? Might misleading measurements by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have been leading us towards the wrong theory of cosmology? One astrophysicist thinks so, and he says the planet Jupiter is to blame – though others insist that there is nothing amiss.
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"I bet Shanks is wrong on this because there are several good theoretical reasons to suppose that both dark energy and dark matter are zero point energy effects of virtual particles inside the vacuum with w = -1. Positive pressure zero point vibrations are indistinguishable from w = 0 Cold Dark Matter real particles whizzing through space as far as any Earth observations are concerned. Also we need the dark energy to explain the Arrow of Time of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Sean Carroll does not seem to know about this connection in his new book on Time. The area of our future dark energy accelerating universe's future 2D event horizon is the maximal entropy inside the interior 3D volume. The number of 2D pixels on the horizon hologram computing screen = number of 3D voxels in the bulk interior hologram images. All objects in our observable universe are hologram computations in this theory." -- Jack Sarfatti