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Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host Sean Carroll. A little while

back I was at a cosmology conference and there was a talk being given by Jim Peebles. Jim Peebles will be very well known to anyone who knows about cosmology. He's a professor at Princeton

One of the grand old men of cosmology. He was a young physicist working with Robert Dickie in the 1960s when they

predicted and tried to observe the cosmic microwave background before being scooped by Penzies and

Wilson.

So he's been around, he's seen everything,

and he's a super nice guy, so everyone wants to hear

what Jim Peebles has to say.

So he was talking to this group about the acceleration of the universe and he showed a picture of the people who discovered

the acceleration of the universe that's sole promoter Adam Reese former Mindscape guest and current colleague of mine at Johns Hopkins, and

Brian Schmidt, their teams of course also had a lot to do with it. I want to give them all

the credit, but these are the folks who were on stage at a ceremony in Japan with some officials from the Japanese

government.

Why am I telling you this?

Because Jim People said this very amusing thing. He sort of looked at the picture and paused and he said,

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