Evidence of Dark Energy?

Astronomy, Science, Space, and Stuff.
Space Nuts Episode 271 with Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley
●Has the University of Cambridge accidentally stumbled across evidence of Dark Energy? Maybe.
●A 2200 year old observatory that’s been discovered in Peru…and it still works!
●Listener questions…can we watch light move through the Universe if you’re in the right place at the right time, a tongue in cheek question about flat-earth theory, can anything stay still in the Universe and a question about time and gravity? Fred has all the answers…
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