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What Is Dark Energy?
Dark energy is a name for an observation, not an explanation of it. The observation is that cosmic expansion is speeding up, and the whole question is whether the thing…
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How We Know Neutrinos Have Mass
A hundred trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second and never touch you, and for most of the twentieth century physicists were sure they weighed nothing at all. They…
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Neutrino Mass Tension: DESI, KATRIN and the Oscillation Floor
Some cosmological fits push the total neutrino mass towards or below the minimum required by oscillations. KATRIN measures a different effective mass. Understanding the tension means keeping the datasets, confidence…
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