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Why Are People Protesting Against a Telescope? | Robert Kirshner (#400)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Exploring the Extravagant Universe and Cosmic Expansion

The chapter delves into the author's book 'The Extravagant Universe', reflecting on its impact, cover art, and availability. It also explores the speaker's experiences winning the Nobel Prize and the challenges of accurately capturing historical events. The discussion then shifts to cosmic expansion, highlighting surprising discoveries about the universe's acceleration, challenges in understanding supernovae as distance tools, and controversies surrounding the cosmological constant and dark energy.

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