Dark energy: A new standard model for physics?

[hue]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21472540

[DreamGypsy]

1. Nothing really new here...

...just a rehash of dark matter, dark energy, and need for a theory of quantum gravity. All dressed up as a nice thriller for public consumption with cute effects. Sure, there will likely be changes to the standard model.

News will be forthcoming shortly from Nobel Laureate Sam Ting about early findings from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer which may point to the direction for answers. From: http://www.space.com/11671-shuttle-alpha-magnetic-spectrometer-ting.html

SPACE.com: What question do you most hope the experiment will answer?

Ting: For us as experimental physicists, the most important thing to realize is really, now you are entering a new domain where people have not carefully explored before. From http://www.space.com/11671-shuttle-alpha-magnetic-spectrometer-ting.html:

What we really will see, nobody will know, because you open the door into a new region. My most important responsibility is to make sure the instrument is correct. You don’t know what you will see, but you have to make sure what you see is correct. That's why we took the detector, took it apart, assembled it, took it apart, assembled it, took it apart, assembled it, three times.

The dogs bark, and Science moves on.

(on edit: hmm, lost the link to the article)