Nobel Prize
By studying exploding stars, an Australian astrophysicist and his colleagues worked out that the Universe is not just expanding, but expanding faster and faster, thanks to dark energy. They pretty much single-handedly made us realise that instead of a Big Crunch, the Universe is just going to… gradually dissipate. Woah. We asked science writer Niall Byrne to talk us through the mind boggliness of it all.
Yesterday morning the Nobel Prize for Physics committee sat down in Stockholm to consider the 2011 prize. By noon they had decided to give the prizes to the leaders of two teams of reseachers who together had come up with a crazy result that broke our understanding of the nature of the Cosmos – that our Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
An accelerating universe was a crazy result that was hard to accept. Yet, two teams, racing neck and neck, simultaneously came to the same conclusion. Their discovery led to the idea of an expansion force, dubbed dark energy. And it suggests that the fate of the universe is to just keep expanding, faster and faster.
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Sorry Lord Monckton. You are a fraud.
Let’s leave the argument about climate change for other people and another day.
This is all about your continued claims to be something you are not - the winner of the Nobel Prize.
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Today in 1970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Arrested while serving for speaking out against the Russian government during WW2, Solzhenitsyn was sent to a Russian prison before being expelled from the country in 1974.
The Nobel prize was based on his 1962 novella ‘One Day in the life of Denisovich’ a first-ever published account of life in a Gulag.
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Where is the reporting on the Swedish Lesbian town? http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,26182164-5014090,00.html Read more »
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Great news today with Australian born molecular biologist Professor Elizabeth Blackburn being awarded the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine.
Professor Blackburn becomes the first ever Australian woman to be awarded the prize in any category and the 36th woman ever out of 789 individuals to win the award.
Like most Australians I had never heard of Blackburn or her amazing research before today, but it now appears we are in clambering with America to claim her as one of our own.
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The other side of the coin as far as the “brain drain” is concerned is that a lot of people with talent just don’t consider a research career. Why would you? You choose the hard science route, you’ve got four years undergraduate, three years PhD (at least) and then a… Read more »
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Dr G says:
Dr M, Agree completely. I made the move to England 5.5 years ago as the only R&D opportunities available to me was in mining (not my interest), academia (lower salaries), or to move to the US or the UK. Granted, I work in a sector that doesn’t reward its people… Read more »
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