The 'New Physics' Model of Dark Energy Nixed

[EdEarl]

Dateline January 10, 2013

Last month, a group of European astronomers, using a massive radio telescope in Germany, made the most accurate measurement of the proton-to-electron mass ratio ever accomplished and found that there has been no change in the ratio to one part in 10 million at a time when the universe was about half its current age, around 7 billion years ago. When University of Arizona astronomy professor Rodger Thompson put this new measurement into his calculations, he found that it excluded almost all of the dark energy models using the commonly expected values or parameters.

From: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/01/-the-new-physics-model-of-dark-energy-nixed.html

 

The title of this article promises an interesting discovery, but the body of the article fails to explain either what or why something may be nixed. Is this article just hot air?

[krash661]

it would be nice to see his " measurement "(formula)

[swansont]

"The new physics model of dark energy that Thompson tested predicts that the fundamental constants will change by a small amount."

 

I would conclude that the "small amount" is still bigger than a part in 10^7