Theorists such as Michael Turner, of the University of Chicago, became convinced that there was something big missing from their picture of the universe.Whatever it is that is driving the universe's accelerating expansion fits the bill rather well.
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.
Who's driving the universe?
Comparing the results obtained on the different distance slices, the team recorded a slowing of the growth of cosmic structures, a sign that the dark energy is driving the universe to expand faster and faster.
Reaction systems are, at many levels of the universe, motors driving the creation of higher structure.
She set to work scooping out the water with an old Tupperware bowl, replacing it in increments so the chlorine would evaporate, driving to Pet Universe to get another cotton filter, some water-clarifying drops, and a pound sack of activated charcoal nuggets.
Ten miles later, it was still haranguing me to turn left — as if I were driving in some alternate universe, in which Missouri is west of Arkansas.
In physics, the award was given to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess, and a team of 51 collaborators for their work in demonstrating the role of dark energy as a driving force of the universe's accelerating expansion.
It has Siri built into the AirPod, its wireless earbud, which already seems like it's driving users to a universe that looks more like Her with a voice-enabled AI on the go.
"We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe," Tyson said.
