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I actually had no idea that an irregularly expanding universe was the conflicting theory.
From my armchair astrophysicist perspective, I just assumed it couldn't be a perfect sphere due to the background radiation map.
Obviously scientific method and all, but this is super cool that for realisies it might change some minds.
The summary is a lie. The crisis isn't over it expanding differently in different places. It's that two measurement methods give different results.
I think it's important to add that those two different methods are on vastly different length scales
Maybe we'll someday discover something as wacky as a "Strong Universal Material Force" that counteracts high energy expansion the same way the Strong Force keeps atoms together.