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So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

Adam Riess

I think the mystery of what’s out there in the universe is just very compelling.
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Compelling Mystery Out Think Thinking Universe
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
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Chemistry High Lied Moving School Teacher
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects.
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Dark Energy Movement Observation Reliable Scale Until
We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.
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Believe Dark Empty Energy Everywhere Space
So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.
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Away Dark Energy Far Measure Until
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees.
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Apple Fall Gravity Tree
We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
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Accelerating Apple Edge Gravity Universe
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.
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Dark Energy Incredibly Make Sense Strange Unnoticed
We’re really just the frosting on a cake and we don’t know what’s inside the cake.
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It’s everywhere, really. It’s between the galaxies. It is in this room.
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Believe Dark Everywhere Galaxy Space

So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

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