This makes me feel very, very old, though maybe in a good way: I lived long enough to see the universe change from “Hmm, maybe heading for a Big Crunch” to “More likely everything receding into the distance behind cosmic horizons” to “WTF, honestly, who knows now?”
https://www.science.org/content/article/mystery-force-behind-universe-s-accelerating-expansion-may-not-be-so-constant-after-all
Greg Egan
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