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ONE of the most baffling but profound observations in modern physics has garnered three cosmologists a Nobel prize. The accelerating expansion of the cosmos has transformed our understanding of space-time even though the force responsible, aptly named dark energy, is still an enigma.
Half of the physics prize goes to Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The rest is split between Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University and Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University. Perlmutter’s team and one led by Schmidt and Riess separately…
