Nobel Dreams: 2011 Physics Prize Honors Accelerating Universe

A few years ago, soon after moving to Los Angeles, an old grad school buddy of the Time Lord came to town, Brian Schmidt, and we took him to a nearby tapas eatery for nibbles and pisco sours. I remember they were shooting a scene from a Will Smith movie that night, so nearby storefronts were riddled with fake bullet holes, and the odd fake gunfire and explosion interrupted our conversation.

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Nobel Dreams: 2011 Physics Prize Honors Accelerating Universe