“Einstein was wrong”- new study of Universe poses fundamental questions - BBC News

Astronomers have created the biggest ever model of the evolution of the Universe, from the Big Bang to the present day, using one of the world’s most powerful super-computers.

The model was based on Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the accepted theory for explaining the structure of the Universe.

However the results suggest there may be problems with Einstein’s work, which predicts how matter should have spread out over the 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang. The results of the new model, called the Dark Energy Survey, show significant differences from Einstein’s predictions.

Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by science correspondent Pallab Ghosh.

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[moinuddinkhan]

Einstein would be happiest if somebody proves him wrong.

[BosleyBeats]

5% margin of error is still pretty damn amazing for how those theories were established and built to be fair

[JuandeFucaU]

Newton wasn't Einstein just came up with a better theory that worked more and, Einstein isn't we're still simply fine tuning his initial ideas.

[kevinfidler]

What do you mean was Einstein wrong? This is science. Eventually, we'll learn more about the universe we all live in, and 70 year old theories may just be proven wrong in light of better evidence. I hope he's wrong. That means we are progressing.

[killnspray]

99% of the time I hear "Einstein was wrong" he was not wrong.
He never said the world started with the big bang, it's only the oldest thing we know.

[q]

Jesus, when Einstein discovered relativity, people didn’t say Newton was wrong. He just didn’t have the bigger picture.
Physics and models are just our best guesses of how the world works, not an accurate comprehensive one.

[mustafasahilaryomardAthiest]

Einstein wasn’t wrong we just discovering things that he wasn’t knows about

[Hooyahfish]

We have no idea how dark matter or dark energy works.
Of course the simulation isn’t accurate.

[bobthebuilder]

I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that the title is clickbait before even watching the video.

[joermnyc]

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” -Douglas Adams

[samt]

Look at all the Amazon bots in the comments 😂

[jorgecapera]

This topic is so interesting that it's a shame the piece about it is so short. Good job BBC news! Keep up the good work.

[ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

The guy sat in an office & "made it all up in his head" having never seen it before.

Later on we looked & found everything he said was there. That's BRILLIANT. He wasn't wrong. He was bloody genius. Even he knew he didn't get it perfect. He wasn't strong as equations & he couldn't believe the universe was expanding so he was prejudiced.

That being said he was 95% right. Show me ANYONE other than Newton or perhaps DaVinci who understands that much?

[Deeplycloseted]

Newton wasn’t wrong, its just that Einstein was more correct. We can still make precise predictions with their equations, no matter what they prove in the future.

[lachazaroony]

I have experience in computer programming, and one wrong character in a string can drastically change a program, so the chances that your simulation is proving Einstein wrong is laughable. If your galaxies are 7% more densely clustered than they should be, my first assumption would be that your programming is 7% off.

[napalmholocaust]

I have a copy of Relativity behind me. I don't think most of us could tell if he was right let alone wrong.

[patrickcollins]

A scientific theory is a mathematical description of reality; a mathematical model of a physical system will always have at least a small amount of error - it’s merely a matter of degree

[Still_anonymous]

First of all: Wrong is relative therm. It is clear that Einstein couldn't have been 100 % correct with every theory. And He must have known that. However, he was mostly proven right. And second: We already know that we are missing something about gravity. That's why the concept of dark matter was concieved in the first place.

[djmbst]

Well, "British scientists discovered..." is a meme for a reason.

[d.sertsedesta]

The interesting part is we have no idea about what is going on just few kilometres from the surface of the earth deep in the ocean but we claim evidences millions if not billions light years away.