Universe in Reverse, the Keck Time Machines

GUEST SPEAKER: Matt Malkan, UCLA Professor of Astronomy ASTRONOMY TALK | What’s new in the young universe? Shortly after the Big Bang, our universe has been measured to have been almost amazingly uniform. Fortunately for our existence, it didn’t stay that way long. The excess gravity of slightly over-dense regions slowed their expansion and eventually caused […]

Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe

GUEST SPEAKER: Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy at University of California, Berkeley; Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences; Miller Senior Fellow in the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science ASTRONOMY TALK | We expected the attractive force of gravity to slow down the rate at which the universe is expanding. However, […]