Adam Riess
Scientist
1969-12-16
Adam Riess is an American astrophysicist known for work on the accelerating expansion of the universe. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011.
Quotes by Adam Riess
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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.
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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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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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