Cosmology is not a done science. There are a great number of advances that have answered specific problems regarding the behavior of light and energy, mass and gravity and so forth, but our knowledge is not complete (and will likely never be).
Articles like this get traction because the lay person may have believed that the science was more mature than it is. (Some) scientists are also notoriously famous for exaggerating how much science "knows" - Stephen Hawkings claim to the mind of God comes to mind.
We need to relieve such scientists of the burden of needing to know it all, and be grateful for all the things still left to discover.
Articles like this get traction because the lay person may have believed that the science was more mature than it is. (Some) scientists are also notoriously famous for exaggerating how much science "knows" - Stephen Hawkings claim to the mind of God comes to mind.
We need to relieve such scientists of the burden of needing to know it all, and be grateful for all the things still left to discover.