Indian scientist wins dark energy-related 10-year-old wager
Pune-based theoretical astrophysicist, Thanu Padmanabhan has won a $200 wager against a physicist from New Zealand based on a 'dark energy' related theory that he suggested at a conference 10 years ago. In 2006, Thanu had suggested that dark energy is just a mathematical term called the "cosmological constant" – an idea proposed and later discarded by Albert Einstein.