A NIAC Project That Could Crush The Hubble Tension

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Fast Radio Bursts can be a key to dramatically improving cosmic distance measurements. A NIAC project suggests using it for a global cosmic positioning system. But at the same time it could be used to finally resolve the Hubble Tension. How will it work? Finding out in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Matt McQuinn
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📜 NIAC project report: Solar system-scale VLBI to
dramatically improve cosmological distance measurements
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09141

📜 Solar System-scale Interferometry on Fast Radio Bursts Could Measure Cosmic Distances with Subpercent Precision
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acc947

00:00 Intro
02:12 What are Fast Radio Bursts
09:07 Measuring distances with FRBs
18:00 How to improve the accuracy of measurements
24:60 Cosmic Positioning System
43:11 Alternative use cases
51:18 Current obsessions
52:23 Final thoughts

Thumbnail Image Credit: CSIRO/Sam Moorfield

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