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SEMINAR
Tuesday, October 23rd - h. 15:00 Aula Seminari
M. Turner (Fermilab)
Making Sense of the New Cosmology
Abstract
Cosmology is in its most exciting period of discovery yet. Over the past five years we have determined the basic features of the Universe -- spatially flat; accelerating; composed of 1/3rd a new form of matter, 2/3rds a new form of energy, with some ordinary matter and neutrinos; and apparently born from a burst of rapid expansion during which quantum noise was stretched to astrophysical size seeding cosmic structure. Now we have to make sense of this: What is the dark matter particle? What is the nature of the dark energy? Why this mixture? How did the matter -- antimatter asymmetry arise? What is the underlying cause of inflation (if it occurred)? If we succeed in making sense of our Universe, this will truly be remembered as a Golden Age.
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MCD, 21/9/2001