Nobel Prize Winner in Australia: How the Expanding Universe Sparked Cutting Edge Technology

Nobel Prize winner in Australia: how the expanding universe sparked cutting edge technology

Brian Schmidt was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics along with his colleagues for discovering that the universe’s expansion is picking up speed. Up to that point, cosmologists had assumed that the expansion of the universe would eventually slow down. The work of Schmidt and his collaborators had profound implications. It meant that something – some unknown force – was driving the universe’s expansion. Physicists still don’t know what it is…

'Hubble Tension' and the Nobel Prize Winner Who Wants to Replace Cosmology's Standard Model

Adam Riess won a Nobel Prize in Physics for helping discover that the universe's acceleration is expanding, remembers The Atlantic. But then theorists "proposed the existence of dark energy: a faint, repulsive force that pervades all of empty space... the final piece to what has since come to be called the 'standard model of cosmology.'" Riess thinks instead we should just replace the standard model: When I visited Riess, back in January, he men…

AI breakthrough unlocks hidden patterns in the universe’s structure

A new AI-powered method is changing how scientists measure the universe. Developed by researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their partners, this technique offers a far more accurate way to determine the cosmos’ key properties. The approach, known as Simulation-Based Inference of Galaxies (SimBIG), pulls hidden clues from galaxy patterns. It goes beyond older techniques by uncovering information that was previously out of reach. Using AI, the…