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One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.

If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.

Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.