» Nothing Weighs Something
More exciting research into Dark Energy, as found in BBC News.
“Putting all of this data together gives us the strongest evidence yet that dark energy is the cosmological constant, or in other words, that ‘nothing weighs something’,” said Alexey Vikhlinin, who led the research from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, US.
Nothing weighs something — how cool is that? Since I learned about it back in college, I’ve always been fascinated that only 5% of the mass in the universe is made up of what we call ‘matter’ - the stuff we can see. The other 95%? Not really sure…
