On Wednesday, May 30, at 9:00 pm, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Assistant Professor of Physics at Brandeis will be a part of the premier of the PBS’ program “NOVA Wonders What is the Universe Made of?” This program provides an introduction to dark matter and dark energy. Researchers admit that, aside from being able to deduce the presence of these phenomena, they have little idea of how each works. “We have no idea what is the physics underlying it,” Marcelle says in the film, referring to dark energy.
In the program, the filmmakers travel to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile just as scientists are detecting gravitational waves. Soares-Santos participated in this discovery.
