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Adam Riess

American Scientist

Born: Dec 16, 1969

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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

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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

Cake Inside Know Just Really

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

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I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling. Adam Riess

Think Universe Out Mystery Very Just Compelling

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

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

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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

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

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