Maybe you read about it today, maybe you didn’t: Radio astronomers working for the past seven years at the south pole have succeeded for the first time in measuring gravitational waves, or, in other words, science has taken a big step in formulating a unifying theory.

How did The New York Times explain it? Why, thusly:

If true, [it] would solve paradoxes like why the heavens look uniform from pole to pole and not like a jagged, warped mess. The enormous ballooning would iron out all the wrinkles and irregularities. Those particles were not missing, but would be diluted beyond detection, like spit in the ocean.

So there you have it. The cosmological constant = spit.

“Space Ripples Seen as Big Bang’s Smoking Gun,” The New York Times