During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning. — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
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. — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake. — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling. — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
