Three Big Questions For Astronomy
The Universe as we know it was formed in what we call the Big Bang, and has been expanding ever since.
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Humanity, despite being a tiny speck of existence in an unfathomably vast Universe, is piecing together the story of our Universe. 13.8 Billion years ago, the Universe as we know it was formed in what we call the Big Bang, and has been expanding ever since. In this lecture I will tell the story of the universe, and focus on three Big Questions for which we do not yet know the answers, but potentially could answer in the near future.
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Brian Schmidt shares the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for their discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.
Whilst studying supernovae, their research determined how supernovae moved, leading to the discovery that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. This was a shocking discovery to the world of astrophysics, as until then it was widely believed that the expansion of the universe would wane due to the effect of opposing gravitational forces.
Brian served as the 12th Vice-Chancellor and President of ANU.
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