Rajendra Gupta On Tired Light and the REAL Age of the Universe [Ep. 431]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Is the universe twice as old as we thought? Current estimates suggest that the Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago. But today, we’re joined by Rajendra Gupta, a luminary in the field of cosmology who claims that the universe is actually 26.7 billion years old. I've invited him on the show so he can make a case for his claims! Professor Gupta is a theoretical physicist currently teaching astrophysics to senior undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on astrophysics, cosmology, general relativity, the dynamics of the universe under evolutionary physical constants beyond the standard model, CMB, JWST, BAO, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the large-scale structure and formation of galaxies, dark matter, and dark energy. To say I am thrilled to have him on the show for the second time would be an understatement. So, without further ado, let’s jump right in! Key Takeaways: 00:00 Intro 01:50 Judging Rajendra’s paper 05:34 Changing cosmic constants 10:45 Tired light hypothesis 13:58 Falsifying the notion that the universe is 26 billion years old 18:57 Falsifying tired light 21:41 The Big Bang and galaxy formation 28:31 Hybrid model of dark energy 33:27 The expanding universe 36:41 Audience questions 44:20 Outro — Additional resources: 📝 Get one month of Snipd Premium for free with this link: https://get.snipd.com/Cx7S/brianSnipd Snipd lets you take Smart Notes 🧠 with AI 💡 — it’s my favorite podcast player 😀 ! ➡️ Learn more about Rajendra Gupta: 💻 University website: https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-science/professors/rajendra-gupta ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is the universe twice as old as we thought? Current estimates suggest that the Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
0:08.0	But today, on Into the Impossible, we're joined by Regendra Gupta, a luminary in the field of cosmology who claims that the universe is actually 26.7 billion years old.
0:21.0	That's almost twice as old as the current model suggests, so naturally
0:25.2	this claim catapulted him straight into the headlines. But as Carl Sagan used to
0:31.4	say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
0:35.6	So I invited Gupta on the show to make a case for his radical theory that could completely
0:40.3	change our understanding of the universe.
0:43.0	Gupta is a University of Ottawa,
0:45.0	adjunct professor, renowned for his pioneering work on dark energy
0:50.0	and the accelerated expansion of the universe.
0:55.0	So without further ado, let's jump right in to an expansive conversation. is indistinguishable from magic.
1:15.2	Open the pod bay doors.
1:18.2	Anyway, Rajendra, you're supposed to be here in person. There were horrible events on UCSD's campus that anti-Israel protesters getting arrested.
1:26.0	75 or so are arrested as we speak and that prevented us from being in person but
1:31.2	you're gracious enough to give us your time today.
1:33.1	Thank you so much. I'm so sorry that you came all the way to San Diego to do this
1:36.2	interview in your hotel room but the campus is on lockdown right now.
1:40.6	Oh my pleasure to be here at least you are we are talking that's
1:44.6	good thing you know we have to all always see what is positive out of all the
1:48.9	difficult times. It is and you're one of the most requested guests recently on the podcast. I'm so glad that we got a chance to have this conversation. And we're going to start. Usually we start off when we have an author on discussing his or her book we show the book and we say we're going to
2:05.1	judge the book by its cover I printed out this paper and I want you to tell us the title
2:11.2	what was behind the title of the paper. There's no artwork, there's no cover
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