
This book tells the complelling story of one of the greatest mysteries of modern Cosmology. Like all great breakthroughs in science, it is often an unexpected result, which spurs the science community into rethinking how the Universe works. Towards the end of the twentieth century scientists thought they had a unified picture of how the Universe worked. Then, at the end of the twentieth century an entirely unexpected discovery was made. This discovery has the potential to revolutionize the way we understand the Universe. Indeed, the discovery may allow science to unravel the mysteries of the entire physical Universe.