It would be the revolution in thought that dark energy mandated. Almost certainly this revolution would require the long-awaited union of general relativity and quantum theory. It might involve modifying Einstein’s equations. It could feature parallel, intersecting, or a virtually infinite ensemble of universes. But whatever this revolution wound up being or doing, it would need what speaker after speaker at conference after conference acknowledged, adopting the same shrugging grace and gratitude as the Dicke birds when they learned they’d been scooped, as Vera Rubin when she realized that
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