Robert Kirshner and the Beauty of Our Accelerating Universe. (March 3, 2013)

Astrophysicist, author of the book The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos, and mentor of Nobel Laureates Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, Robert Kirshner gave one of the plenary lectures for the 2013 conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His talk took his audience through a universe dominated by dark energy and dark matter: "We live in an extravagant universe with a surprising number of essential ingredients: the real universe we measure is not the simplest one we could imagine."

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