February 5, 2005: Cosmological Theories - Charles Seife

Art Bell speaks with Charles Seife, a science journalist and author who covers physics and cosmology for Science Magazine. Seife explains how the discovery of dark energy in the late 1990s upended decades of assumptions about the fate of the universe. Rather than gravity slowing the expansion of the cosmos, distant supernovae observations revealed that the universe is accelerating apart, driven by a mysterious repulsive force that Einstein once predicted and then dismissed as a mistake. Seife… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/february-5-2005-cosmological-theories-charles-seife