The Nobel Prize is the highest award in science. Its recipients include nearly every member of the pantheon of secular gods we revere--from Albert Einstein to Marie Curie, along with more recent notables such as James Watson and Francis Crick.

Every December, the current year's crop of new science Laureates travel to Stockholm to receive their Prizes. While they are there, Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Foundation, interviews them for the archives. This year, Nobelprize.org is offering visitors to Scientific American.com the chance to pose questions to the Laureates. Read about this years' Laureates here.

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1. 1. jbroman 02:01 PM 5/4/10

   Is the universe expanding: As we base our theory on reliable light intensity sources and square law interpretation for distance and red shift for relative velocity, we are totally dependent on our belief in the nature of light over time. Could light has some loss like a hysteresis loss that is very minute and is deteriorating in intensity and frequency at a predictable rate and we don't know it, thereby skewing our interpretations?

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2. 2. jbroman 02:05 PM 5/4/10

   Is the universe really expanding: As we base our theory on reliable light intensity sources and square law interpretation for distance and doppler red shift for relative velocity, we are totally dependent on our belief in the nature of light over time. Could light have some unknown loss over time like a hysteresis loss that is very minute and is deteriorating in intensity and frequency at a predictable rate, thereby skewing our interpretations?

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