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| | Discovery supports astronomers paradoxical views of the universe |
 | | The universe really is as surprising as scientists have come to suspect it is, according to a discovery that University of Chicago astrophysicists will announce Thursday, Sept. 19, at the COSMO-02 conference at Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. |
 | | Its a universe in which ordinary matter, the stuff of which humans, stars and galaxies are made, accounts for less than five percent of the universes total mass and energy. |
 | | The vast majority of the universe, meanwhile, is made of a mysterious force that astronomers call dark energy. This vague name reflects the fact that scientists simply do not know what it is. They only know that it acts in opposition to gravity, accelerating the expansion of the universe. |
| www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/02/020918.carlstrom.shtml (824 words) |
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