Vincent wrote:
It was looking increasingly unlikely that it didn't exist or if it did it was a much smaller amount than originally thought. Which in turn would screw up quite a lot of science. :-D
It's probably the other way around, that they've screwed up a lot of science in refusing to believe in it. Einstein predicted that the universe was expanding in an equation eighty years ago, but he was so convinced that the universe wasn't expanding he added a constant - the universal constant.
The discovery that the universe was expanding prove that the universal constant was unnecessary and Einstein was right in the first place. That's if it really is, of course - no one's sure yet, still.
