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I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Compelling
Mystery
Thinking
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We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Cake
Knows
Inside
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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.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Exploding
Far Away
Moving Away
Stars
Developed
Distant
How Far
Measure
Techniques
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During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Enthusiasm
Filled
Fortunate
High School
Hills
Inspired
My Time
Teachers
Time Learning Me
Number
Regional
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Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Teacher
Chemistry
Lied
Moving
School
High School Teacher
Particle
School Teacher
Such A Thing
Vacuum
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Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Daily Life
Dark
Energy
Solar System
Strange
Unnoticed
Inside
Life Me Energy
Life Daily Me
Actually
Daily
Effect
Incredibly
Solar
System
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We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Accelerate
Apples
Daily Life
Fall
Gravity
Tree
Universe
Apple
Daily
Edge
Observe
Throw
Trees
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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.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Space
Believe
Dark
Empty
Empty Space
Avoid
Galaxies
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Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Dark
Effects
Energy
Far Away
Movement
Scale
Measure
Observations
Reliable
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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.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Exciting Things
General Relativity
Gravity
Including
Physics
Quantum
Quantum Mechanics
Relativity
Theory
Einstein
Explains
Mechanics
Theories
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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.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Constant
Expanding
Gravity
Pushing
Theory
Collapsing
Discovered
Einstein
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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.
Adam Riess / University Professor
Accelerate
Colleagues
Dark
Expanding
Faster
Long Time
Mysterious
Percent
Universe
Years Ago
Attributed
Discovered
Make Up
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