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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 06 > Dark energy: cool name, little known

Dark energy: cool name, little known

It has changed how scientists think, but no one’s sure why it does what it does

By Dennis Overbye / The Bulletin
June 6, 2008

BALTIMORE — Mario Livio tossed his car keys in the air.

They rose ever more slowly, paused, shining, at the top of their arc, and then in accordance with everything our Galilean ape brains have ever learned to expect, crashed back down into his hand.

That was the whole problem,....

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