Could "dark energy" be a sign of Earth's special place in the universe?
Monday, May 12, 2008 - 11:28
in Astronomy & Space
Ever since Copernicus placed the Sun at the center of the universe instead of the Earth, scientific discoveries have been repeatedly making our home planet less special and more ordinary. But could the "principle of mediocrity" turn out to be wrong in one critical recent discovery--dark matter--and could that discovery really mean something other than what physicists have suggested? read more