Brian Schmidt:Nobel Prizewinner: Cosmic Acceleration and Collaboration (#201)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Brian Keating
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🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to a new episode of Into the Impossible with Brian Keating and |
| 0:06.9 | another Brian Schmidt winner co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the accelerating |
| 0:15.7 | universe, which according to Brian, despite an enormous body of theoretical work that has been undertaken in response to their discovery, |
| 0:26.5 | there is not yet a fundamentally altered knowledge or perspective or paradigm on how physicists should |
| 0:36.4 | interpret the acceleration of the universe. |
| 0:39.4 | And just last week there was an announcement that not only is the universe's expansion that is |
| 0:44.6 | accelerating but its expansion itself parameterized by the so-called Hubble |
| 0:48.5 | constant is in grave tension there anxiety. Why do measurements using the |
| 0:54.5 | cosmic microwave background radiation, the sort of science that I |
| 0:58.1 | traffic in, and the type of science that Adam Reese, |
| 1:01.3 | pastcast, and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize along with |
| 1:04.1 | Brian Schmitt and Brian himself Trafficin which is observations of distant |
| 1:09.2 | compact objects be they supernovae be they seffiad variables and the like why is there such a discrepancy the chances of which happening by fluke chance are |
| 1:20.4 | estimated at one in a million or less. So there's great tension, there's great |
| 1:25.2 | interest in this and it was just one of the many things that Brian and I talked |
| 1:29.1 | about. He's an extremely busy human being. He basically runs a university in Australia and how he went |
| 1:35.6 | from Montana to Alaska to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Seattle, to Australia is a subject of great |
| 1:42.4 | interest. But one of the most fascinating things |
| 1:45.4 | about Brian Schmidt is his obsession with wine. |
| 1:49.8 | His Twitter handle is Cosmic Pino and he tweets often about different varietals. |
| 1:55.8 | And I brought up one of my favorite quotes of the great master, the first observational |
| 2:01.4 | astronomer in history, Galileo Galilei who said wine is sunlight |
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