• Question: what sort of thing do you like to detect ?

    Asked by fernbonnie123 to Clare on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 14 Mar 2012:


      I like to try and detect dark energy, this is the mysterious substance which makes up 70% of our universe and which is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.
      There are lots of places we can look for dark energy, in particle coliders like the one at CERN, in light from distant stars, and in how galaxies formed in our universe.

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