THE mysterious dark energy that is driving the expansion of the universe could be linked to neutrinos. This could account for some puzzling results from various neutrino detectors around the world and, for the first time, allow physicists to work out the source of dark energy.
In 1998, astronomers discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating and attributed the phenomenon to some kind of “dark energy” pushing space apart. There are several theories about the nature of this energy, but none of them can be realistically tested at the moment.
That might be about to change. Last year,…
