Fermilab Reports Dark Energy Not Needed

An anonymous reader writes "A Fermilab press release reports that the expansion of the universe may be explainable without the need for dark energy or a cosmological constant. Apparently, ripples from inflation in the early universe may account for the observed expansion rate of the universe."

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Re:Enjoy Fermilab's work while you can

[tsotha]

In fact, spending on basic research is dropping at an alarming rate through all the national laboratories.

Do you have any real numbers to attach to this, or are you using the phrase "dropping at an alarming rate" to try to cover your lack of solid information? And don't tell me to use Google - you made the assertion; do your own research.

This does not bode well for our future.

I know this will be heresy here on slashdot, but perhaps you can explain why this is so. I've noticed a pretty distinct lack of "bang-for-the-buck" in this kind of research. Sure, there was nuclear power, but that was, what, 60 years ago? Fusion power seems to be permanently ensconced "30 years away". So tell me, what are my tax dollars doing for me at Fermilab, and how will this affect my life over the next 30 years (as I'm unlikely to live much longer than that)? I'm as curious as the next guy, but not "billions and billions" of dollars worth of curious.