Robert Kirshner
Robert Kirshner
Robert Kirshner is the Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University. Kirshner has worked in several areas of astronomy including the physics of supernovae, supernova remnants, the Large-scale structure of the cosmos and the use of Supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe...
found people speeding universe
People thought ... the universe was just coasting ... Instead, we found it is actually speeding up.
brave
It's kind of brave to get started before you know you're going to finish.
lonely universe
The universe will be a very lonely place to look at.
confirmed results
If it's confirmed by other results and other approaches, it's going to tell us there is something important, another constituent to the universe.
might true weird
That's very weird. But it's not unprecedented that weird things might be true things.
blunt bursts delicate measure risk tool
We don't know much about bursts so there is a risk this is misleading. It is a blunt tool to measure a delicate effect.