Tension in the Cosmos

(Chart by Ben Finney)

You’ve heard of the Big Bang theory?  Perhaps it’s more of a theory than was previously suspected. That could be why matter is actually less dense than it’s “supposed” to be.

Eleonora Di Valentino, a senior research fellow at the University of Sheffield, admits, “Measurements of the early universe predict that cosmic structures should have grown more strongly over time than what we observe today.”  There’s been a lingering tension within the standard cosmological model due to a mismatch between early and late pictures of the universe.

Di Valentino was quick to assert that standard cosmological theory is not wrong, but simply “incomplete.”  And what could better fill this knowledge gap than yet another theory?  So here goes: The Sheffield research team currently suggests that neutrinos and dark matter have somehow been engaged in secret trysts.

After all, opposites attract.  Overbearing dark matter is somewhat clumpy, whereas neutrinos “are light and elusive, behave differently and can smooth things out.”  Sounds like a match made in the heavens, or perhaps within Heaven itself…

Resources

https://news.yahoo.com/news/articles/dark-matter-neutrinos-linked-interact-125100506.html.