Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
(Fall 2006)
• 1916 - 97
• important contributions
both in theory and observation
critical
flat density
us
???
• Our Universe appears highly improbable
• GUT= Grand
Unified Theory
GUT - 1974:
Sheldon Glashow
and Howard Georgi
Electromagnetic force
broken-
symmetry state
Higgs field
time
False
vacuum
- self-reproducing
The Dark Side of the Universe
• Big Q: What is the universe made of?
• consensus view of
early 21st century (WMAP):