An Accelerating Universe? Current evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating is based entirely upon observations of distant white dwarf supernova. List all of the assumptions that you can think of that are made in using white dwarf supernova as distance indicators. Is it conceivable that any of these assumptions may be incorrect?
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