Dark Energy: Finding Your Way in the Dark

While we can't tell you if it's the stuff that gave Darth Vader all that power, we can help you understand what dark energy is, why it's important, and how we might be able to prove that it is there.

Dr. Alexie Leauthaud of Lawrence Berkeley National lab will speak on dark energy, a hypothetical energy that is the leading current explanation for the observed accelerating expansion rate of the universe.

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