{"id":244292,"date":"2026-09-21T01:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/adam-riess-on-dark-energy-and-the-unruly-universe"},"modified":"2026-09-21T01:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:02:37","slug":"adam-riess-on-dark-energy-and-the-unruly-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/adam-riess-on-dark-energy-and-the-unruly-universe","title":{"rendered":"Adam Riess on Dark Energy and the Unruly Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adam-riess-on-dark-energy-and-the-unruly-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to assume a cosmologist suits only science conferences. In practice, Riess resonates just as strongly with business, finance, and leadership audiences, because the deeper subject of his work is how to think.<\/p>\n<p>His talks are, at their core, about following evidence that contradicts consensus, telling a real signal from noise, and holding your nerve when the data points somewhere uncomfortable. Those are precisely the disciplines that separate good decisions from bad ones in any high-stakes field.<\/p>\n<p>It is a sensibility he shares with fellow Nobel laureate <a href=\"https:\/\/aurumbureau.com\/blog\/michael-spence-ai-economics\/\">Michael Spence<\/a>, whose work on the economics of AI rests on the same evidence-first rigor. For any organization navigating genuine uncertainty, Riess offers not just wonder but a model of how to reason under it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be easy to assume a cosmologist suits only science conferences. In practice, Riess resonates just as strongly with business, finance, and leadership audiences, because the deeper subject of his work is how to think. His talks are, at their core, about following evidence that contradicts consensus, telling a real signal from noise, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,33,39,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cosmology","category-economics","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}