Einstein the Realist
With the discovery that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought, newspaper headlines are proclaiming that Albert Einstein was right, after all. But Einstein's most important legacy is his belief that a physical world, existing in reality, accounts for all of our experience.
OXFORD – It was recently discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought. Light from distant exploding stars revealed that an unknown force (dubbed “dark energy”) more than outweighs gravity on cosmological scales.