An Accelerating Universe: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2011
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. |
| 0:02.3 | Hiya. |
| 0:02.9 | So, Benny has really blossomed this term. |
| 0:05.6 | You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, that's not quite what I meant. |
| 0:11.1 | It's free to sell on there. |
| 0:12.3 | Free to sell? |
| 0:13.4 | Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. |
| 0:16.8 | You sold my guitar? |
| 0:19.9 | Shall we talk about Benning? |
| 0:22.1 | When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay. |
| 0:26.7 | Things people love. |
| 0:28.0 | T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to a special edition of the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk. |
| 0:39.8 | Often Nobel Prize announcements can be fairly difficult to understand, |
| 0:43.2 | but this morning's announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics was actually fairly intelligible even to us average laypeople. |
| 0:52.2 | Here is the entire announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy |
| 0:56.0 | of Sciences of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The first voice you hear will be Stefan |
| 1:04.0 | Normark. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is about our entire universe. |
| 1:12.2 | The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| 1:19.2 | with one half to Professor Sol Pellmutter, the Supernova Cosmology Project, |
| 1:26.2 | Lawrence, Berkeley National Laboratory, and University of California, Berkeley, USA. |
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