Thinking Beyond November 2024 - New Light on Dark Energy: The Mystery Deepens

“Ask a Physicist” has been renamed “Thinking Beyond” in order to encompass a broader range of topics. Our format will remain the same with a talk given by an expert and the audience participating by asking questions during the webinar or in advance.

The “Thinking Beyond” webinar series will feature renowned physicists Paul Davies, Sara Walker and Maulik Parikh from the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University and will address a big question/topic in science. This month, Tamara Davis will present the topic and will be joined by Paul Davies and Sara Walker.

November's webinar- New Light on Dark Energy: The Mystery Deepens

After 6 years of painstaking observations, an international team has garnered evidence that dark energy may be changing with time. I shall outline how the Dark Energy Survey observations of about 1,500 supernovae have pinned down the density of dark energy with unprecedented precision, and also enabled a precise measurement of time dilation due to the expansion of the Universe. But what would be the implications of time-dependent dark energy for fundamental physics and the fate of the universe?

Please submit any advance questions to [email protected] or you can also submit them during the webinar!