Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing over time, according to new observations released Wednesday.
  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Man, I feel like a lot of the science headline writers forget that dark matter and dark energy were only ever placeholders. This doesn’t “rattle our view of the universe”; we already knew that our view was incomplete, hence the need for placeholders in the first place.

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      pop-sci gonna pop-sci

      but, you know, it helps to moderate the terror of watching publically funded US science getting “fed into the woodchipper”. perhaps it piques more general interest. idk. I am sad.