The convergence is only valid if the distance ladder is accurate. There are a va...

		incogitor on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as ol... The convergence is only valid if the distance ladder is accurate. There are a variety of deductive bottlenecks in the distance ladder which could implicate the whole current distance model. Standard candles and redshift measurements are calibrated together, for example. If either is off then the whole current ladder could be invalid.

If absorption lines could magically match that shift, you mean?