The SFU Nobel Prize Lectures in Chemistry and Physics: 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" and the contributions of Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schm

Abstract

"From Static to Expanding to Accelerating: The Universe Before and After the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics"

Not only the universe is expanding, it is doing so at an accelerating rate. The lecture will review the history leading to this astounding discovery in 1998 and the challenges that cosmologists are addressing today.