Astrophysicist Dr. Alex Filippenko, chair of UC-Berkeley’s astronomy department, joins Dan for the first part of a two-part conversation. In part one, he talks about the nature of dark energy and how the universe may end in a few billion years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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