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To: LTK007 who wrote (10170)	4/3/2001 3:44:06 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (3) of 82486

Max, you might be interested in this story from today's NYT. Dark matter has a new friend, it appears. Photo Gives Weight to Einstein's Thesis of Negative Gravity nytimes.com Cosmologists will have to cope with a universe that seems increasingly filled with mysterious stuff that scientists cannot see and do not fully understand. The dark energy joins dark matter as an invisible constituent of the cosmos. Dark matter's gravitational effects are known, and despite its invisibility it is presumed to give the universe much of its mass. Physicists will try to explain the source and exact nature of the dark energy. Dr. Turner said these questions appeared to lie at the crossroads of several of the most important problems in physics. "In `The Graduate,' that guy told young Dustin Hoffman, `plastics,' " Dr. Turner said. "My advice to the next generation of particle physicists and astrophysicists: dark energy."

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