It is the centrepiece of the Dark Energy Survey DESS), the most ambitious attempt yet to understand a mystery as perplexing as any that faces physics: what is driving the universe to expand at an ever greater rate.It has been known since the late 1920s that the universe is getting bigger.
Not only did the fireball kill him, but it also blew his shoes apart, knocked out his assistant and tore a nearby door off its hinges.That fireball was what is now known as ball-lightning, a phenomenon as perplexing as it is spectacular.
By repurposing household objects and routines in my photographs, I am creating moments that are as perplexing as the normality of defecating in a porcelain seat.
Why Cartwright left this to the later stages of the novel is a mystery, one as perplexing as why the aftermath of Jaco and Frank's collision is only explored in a short coda.
They must find it as perplexing as I do that the United States government granted the man it identified not as a Muslim, but as a "mass murderer of Muslims," the dubious honor of a quasi-Islamic funeral.
"A Very Sandwich Christmas," at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side, may also seem like a perplexing title, but it's not nearly as perplexing as the show itself, which involves carnivorous activities that have nothing to do with Christmas but does end with a fetal rabbit's being transformed into the baby Jesus and splayed across the head of a giant cat.
It was as perplexing as it was brutal.
Sunday's loss was as perplexing as it was frustrating.
But the whole thing was just as perplexing as I thought it would be.
Such uncertainty and unanswered questions dominate "The Demon in the Freezer," making it as perplexing as the times.
