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Old 09-September-2007, 01:38 AM
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Originally Posted by antoniseb View Post
Here's an interesting paper:
SNLS Spectroscopy: Testing for Evolution in Type Ia Supernovae

There's a lot of up-to-the-minute details about careful observations. Basically it concludes:
Or, in terms of what we might call the 'Jerry idea'*, a systematic study showing that local Ia SNe are not, phenomenologically, different from distant ones (assuming an appropriate LCDM model).

*Summarised, in language consistent with Jerry posts, as something like "high-z SNe are all radically different from low-z ones!" or "none of the observational results makes any sense at all!" Or, if you prefer, anti-confirmation bias on steroids.