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Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call
Saul Perlmutter / Professor
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
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Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.
Saul Perlmutter / Professor
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Expects
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I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.
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Too Much
Tend
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I am delighted, excited, and deeply honored.
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Delighted
Honored
Deeply
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This is the kind of discovery that resonates.
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Discovery
Resonates
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If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.
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Company
Dark
Energy
Good Company
Puzzled
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Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.
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Jobs
Figures
Scientist
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Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators
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Able
Astronomers
Fundamentals
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Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
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Ought
Fundamental
Fundamental Questions
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It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.
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Blast
Choices
Cold
Fiery
Tough
Ending
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You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster
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Faster
Gravity
Might
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You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.
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Expanding
Faster
Gravity
Slow
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I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us
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Kids
Should
World
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What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.
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Air
Blast
Little Bit
Seeing
Throwing
Apple
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There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.
Saul Perlmutter / Professor
Answers
Feels
Looks
Universe
Humbled
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Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.
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Space
Campus
Important
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Parking
People
Prize
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.
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Community
Country
International
International Community
Scientist
Team
Team Spirit
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We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe
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Quarters
Three
Way
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We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe.
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Accounting
Complete
Remarkably
Three-Quarters
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So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising
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Littles
Understanding
World
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So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.
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Someday
Surprising
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It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'
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Morning
Interesting
Wake Up
Morning Feel Wake Up
Reporter
Wake
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It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not
Saul Perlmutter / Professor
Jobs
Fate
Fundamentals
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It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not.
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Fate
Favourite
Infinite
Fundamental
Seemed
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You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true
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Mind
Pleasure
Want
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You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.
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Pleasure
Demonstrate
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This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.
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Floating
Ice
Sheets
Observations
Processes
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From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it
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Understanding
Views
Would Be
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From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.
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Point Of View
Discovered
Fundamental
Revisit
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I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot
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Kids
Cities
Growing Up
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I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot.
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Achievement
Cities
Parking
Urban
Life Look Will
All My Life
Spot
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If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.
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Range
Theory
Almost Everyone
Expand
Possibilities
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If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.
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Answers
Thinking
Trying
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The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.
Saul Perlmutter / Professor
Collapse
Expanding
Gravity
Halt
Speeding
Surprise
Assumed
Began
Big Surprise
Original
Project
Slow
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You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.
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Careful
Announcement
Check
Possible Thing
Scientific
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It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community
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Opportunity
Fun
People
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It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community.
Saul Perlmutter / Professor
Excitement
Hints
Prize
Unusual
So Many People
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For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.
Saul Perlmutter / Professor
Accelerate
Consequence
Discovery
Expanding
Ice
Speed
Astounding
Bang
Big Bang
Billion
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