{"id":2779,"date":"2011-10-05T07:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2011-10-05T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:49:04","slug":"three-us-born-citizens-win-physics-nobel-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"Three US-Born Citizens Win Physics Nobel for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Studies of Universe&#8217;s Expansion Win Physics Nobel Prize: <\/strong>Three  US-born citizens won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 4,\u00a0 for their  studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the  universe is accelerating.\u00a0 Their discovery created a new picture of the  eventual fate of the universe:\u00a0 a place of super-low temperatures and  black skies unbroken by the light of galaxies moving away from each  other at incredible speed.\u00a0 Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam  Ries discovered that the acceleration is driven by dark energy, a cosmic  force that is one of the great mysteries of the universe.\u00a0 Their  research implies that billions of years from now, the universe will  become &#8220;a very, very large, but very cold and lonely place.&#8221;\u00a0 The  discovery was the biggest shakeup in physics in the last 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies of Universe&#8217;s Expansion Win Physics Nobel Prize: Three US-born citizens won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 4,\u00a0 for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.\u00a0 Their discovery created a new picture of the eventual fate of the universe:\u00a0 a place of super-low temperatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}