Adam Riess Quotes

• 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.

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  Otoño, Manzanas, Árbol

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• We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

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  Cake, Knows

  "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! " with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.

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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.

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  Dark, Energy, Strange

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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.

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  Believe, Dark, Space

  "Adam Riess: One Cosmic Puzzle Solved, Many To Go". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 16, 2012.

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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.

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  Dark, Energy, Movement

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

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  Thinking, Mystery, Compelling

  "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.

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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.

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  Teacher, Moving, School

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