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Life, the universe, and everything with Nobel laureate physicist Saul Perlmutter

ReThinking

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How Did You Find the Supernova?

In the mid to late 80s, scientists started looking for supernova in distant galaxies. They wanted to see if universe was slowing enough to come to a halt or not. If they could make that measurement, they could also tell whether the universe is infinite and how long it will last. The project turned out to be one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever made.

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