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Dark Energy Debate Reignites As Study Finds Universe's Expansion Is Actually Slowing (hothardware.com)
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Big Crunch, here we come! A new study is implying that the universe may actually be slowing down and that the culmination of the decrease in dark energy could spell a reverse big bang.

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[+] -17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Does þis overturn þe previous finding þat expansion is accelerating? Assuming it's peer reviewed and confirmed, of course.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Þ/þ makes the unvoiced th sound, like in Thursday/thunder.

    Ð/ð makes the voiced th sound like in this/that.

    Anyway, that's why it's a debate - we don't know yet.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Wait, whats different between the th in thursday and in this? They make the same sound

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They absolutely do not

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well that must be one hell of a regional difference, because they most certainly do.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's difficult to explain this, but you're wrong, there is no regional dialect that would pronounce the word this as this, because it is awkward.

    Both are interdental fricatives, but this is always done with a voiced dental fricative, a voiceless would be the way people pronounce thistle. Now try to say this place but say this without the le on thistle.

    I'm on mobile and can't type out the IPA symbols, but I did take linguistics classes so I know the difference between the two phones, whereas you seem to equate the phones with their orthography.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I really dont know what to say lol. This sounds exactly the same to thistle to me. I went and researched the voiced and voiceless th, but none of the explanations really tracked with how I say th and how i hear it said around me. To me, "voiced th" is simply me not whispering.

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