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Podcast: ๆ่ๅธซ้ชไฝ ๆข็ดข่ฑๆไธ็ Exploring English with Ms. Lee
Episode: EP209 | ๐ๅฎๅฎๆดๅผต๏ผ็ๆ็ถ็ถ๏ผ่ซพ่ฒ็พ็ๅพไธป้ก่ฆ่ฟทๆ
Description: Adam Riess was just 27 when he began the research that would earn him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and only 41 when he received the honor. His groundbreaking (็ช็ ดๆง็) work revealed that distant galaxies are receding (ๅพ้๏ผ้ ้ข) faster than expected โ a discovery that pointed to an accelerating (ๅ ้็) expansion of the universe. While Riess excelled (ๆ
้ท) at making precise (็ฒพ็ขบ็) astronomical observations, explaining this acceleration fell to theorists (็่ซๅญธๅฎถ), who proposed the existence of a mysterious (็ฅ็ฅ็) force: dark energy (ๆ่ฝ้).
According to these theorists, dark energy is pushing galaxies apart at an increasing rate. Telescopes today can detect hundreds of billions of galaxies, but trillions (ๅ
๏ผ่ฌๅ) of years from now, dark energy may driv...