Prof. Alex Filippenko was interviewed by Dr. Brian Greene for the World Science Festival

March 12, 2025

In Dec. 2024, Prof. Alex Filippenko was interviewed by Dr. Brian Greene for the World Science Festival. They discussed the accelerating expansion of the Universe, dark energy, and especially the current "Hubble tension" -- the discrepancy between the measured and predicted current expansion rate. The episode (2 hours long) is now available at https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/mind-the-gap-will-tiny-discrepancies-derail-cosmology/

Alex thinks it went pretty well -- but he asks you to please excuse his error of saying 16 (instead of 14, which is what he meant to say) helium nuclei around t = 45 minutes! (His excuse is that he did the interview after staying up very late for the last Astronomy C10 "bull session," on cosmology.)

The interview already has nearly 100,000 views!