Professor of physics and astrophysical sciences, University of Princeton
I am the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. I am a 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. My research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. My major projects are the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory. I have been the analysis leader for ACT for the past few years, and am currently the Spokesperson of the Simons Observatory. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society.
If we were to go back to the Big Bang, or as close to that as we can get, we think we would find ourselves at a moment a fraction of a second after the beginning of time.
If dark matter is a new kind of particle, it can travel through our body, through anything. It does not interact with the regular atoms we know of. It does obey the law of gravity.
Astronomers have long thought that other stars likely had their own planets around them, but they just did not know whether they were there, because planets are incredibly hard to see.
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