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...amazing new things in science is that the expansion of the universe, which people have known about since 1929, has been speeding up, not slowing down due to gravity as everyone thought,” said Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70. “To figure out what this dark energy is, we need to go more precisely and further into the past...
Figuring out what the dark energy means could call into question a number of the fundamental tenets of physics, Kirshner said...
...It’s a huge adventure,” Kirshner said. “There’s widespread support for doing something along these lines and the topic has strong popular appeal...
...Kirshner agreed the resources available do not currently meet all needs...
...It’s one of those things where there’s a funny sort of tug of war between the speed that’s available to you on a local machine and what you need, which is far away and difficult to access,” Kirshner said...