Runaway universe [videorecording] / a Nova production by Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc. for WGBH/Boston ; written by Thomas Lucas & Michael Winship and Julia Cort ; produced and directed by Thomas Lucas ; science director & co-producer, R. Brent Tully ; producer, Donna Cox ; executive producer, Paula S. Apsell.
Documentary. Narrator, Liev Schreiber ; featured experts, Brian Schmidt, Michael Turner, Wendy Freedman, Robert Kirshner, Alex Filippenko, Saul Perlmutter, Steve Weinberg, Adrian Lee. Originally produced as an episode of the television series: Nova. Program content: c2000.
Summary:
Examines the surge of the anti-gravitational force by which the universe currently appears to be expanding, similar to the one following the big bang, a phenomenon that stands in contradiction to the traditional thought among astrophysicists that the expansion of the universe is slowing.
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