Adam Riess quotes

Adam Riess is an American astrophysicist renowned for his contributions to the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. His research provided critical evidence for the existence of dark energy. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics. Here are 8 of his 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. (Adam Riess)

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

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

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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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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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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

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Occupation: American Scientist
Born: December 16, 1969
Quotes count: 8

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