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Something is wrong with the Universe, or at least our understanding of it. Previously, in the words of Arthur Dent, “Most of it seemed to make sense at the time.” But new discoveries have upset our tidy view of the Cosmos, filling it with inexplic­able Dark Matter and Dark Energy. As the magazine of unexplained phenomena, FT should cover most of the Universe. Or might scientists be able to make sense of it all again?


Things started well at the beginning of the 20th century. Astronomers discovered that in every direction there were galaxies moving away from us. They also found that the further away a galaxy was, the faster it was going.