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Alex Filippenko
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 7:30PM
Bankhead Theater
LVPAC Presents Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe
Observations of very distant exploding stars show that the expansion of the Universe is now speeding up, rather than slowing down due to gravity as expected. Over the largest distances, our Universe seems to be dominated by a repulsive “dark energy.” Dark energy stretches the very fabric of space itself faster and faster with time. But the physical origin of dark energy is unknown, and is often considered to be the most important unsolved problem in physics.
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