Roger Blandford (Stanford University, SLAC):

Roger Blandford (Stanford University, SLAC):
29/11

29. November 2018. 15:00 - 16:00

ELTE Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, 0.81 (Ortvay lecture hall)

11/29

2018. November 29. 15:00 - 16:00

ELTE Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building, 0.81 (Ortvay lecture hall)


Reverse Engineering the Universe

Abstract: Careful observations over the past sixty years guided by basic principles of physics including, especially, Albert Einstein’s General Relativity, have allowed cosmologists to reconstruct the history of the universe and to describe it using a remarkably simple standard model. This narrative begins with an epoch of rapid acceleration, called inflation when the seeds of contemporary structure were sown. This was followed by a period decelerating expansion while the universe, cooled off. In recent times it has started to accelerate again due to the dominance of a cosmological constant.  This standard model has proven to be quite resilient to observational challenge and more tests are on the way. However, many questions remain unanswered. One of these is how much can be learned about the largest scale structure of the actual universe we inhabit.


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