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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy - he called it a cosmological constant - could play this role, pushing things away.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020