Word: faraway
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Aside from that detail, the Einstein connection made the idea of dark energy, or antigravity, seem somewhat less nutty when Schmidt and Perlmutter weighed in. Of course, some astrophysicists had lingering doubts. Maybe the observers didn't really have the supernovas' brightness right; perhaps the light from faraway stellar explosions was dimmed by some sort of dust. The unique properties of a cosmological constant, moreover, would make the universe slow down early on, then accelerate. That's because dark energy grows as a function of space. There wasn't much space in the young, small universe, so back then...
...EDWIN HUBBLE when: 1927 what he did: Discovered that faraway galaxies all seem to be flying away from Earth, which suggested that the universe was in fact expanding. In doing so, Hubble gave Einstein scientific license to abandon the cosmological constant, whose creation the brilliant physicist dubbed the greatest blunder of his career. In retrospect, it was an inspired guess that could have won him another Nobel Prize...
...follow-up and tell the story of the victims' families." A New Hampshire man strongly echoed that thought: "These prisoners may grieve for lost opportunities and freedom, but where are the grief and remorse for the pain they caused their unsuspecting victims and their families?" In the faraway Maldives, a reader was more than content to keep his distance from our killer kids: "Please don't spread this gun disease. We don't care what is happening in the darkness of American jails...
Expedition climbing had become a spectator sport. The faraway world of life-or-death decisions and dramatic rescues now unfolds on our desktops...
...glorious house of worship. The walls are gray, austere, adorned with pictures of important and beloved figures. Icons and talismans from faraway lands lie about, recalling passages of days gone by. A Chinese lantern adds a taste of pageantry, while a gentle murmur emanates from an acolyte...