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IUCAA Bulletin 2016
Editor : Editorial Assistant : Somak Raychaudhury Manjiri Mahabal ([email protected]) ([email protected]) A quarterly bulletin of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics ISSN 0972-7647 (An autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission) Available online at http://ojs.iucaa.ernet.in/ 27th IUCAA Foundation Day Lecture Introduction A Natural History of The 27th IUCAA Foundation Day Knowledge Lecture was delivered by the eminent A naturalist lives today in a world of Indian ecologist, Professor Madhav wounds, but for a connoisseur of Gadgil on December 29, 2015. Over a knowledge, ours is a golden age; the career spanning more than four decades, challenge before us is to deploy the strengths Professor Gadgil has championed the of our age to heal the wounds. Life is an effort towards the preservation of information-based, progressive and ecology in India, which includes cooperative enterprise, evolving organisms establishing the Centre for Ecological capable of handling greater and greater Sciences under the aegis of the Indian quantities, of increasingly more complex Institute of Science, Bengaluru in 1983 information, ever more effectively. Social and serving as the Head of the Western animals have taken this to new heights, with be unhappy in this as well as the nether Ghats Ecology Expert Panel of 2010, humans surpassing them, all thanks to the world. The ruling classes have always tried popularly known as the Gadgil language abilities, and the greatly enhanced to keep the populace ignorant as preached Commission. An alumnus of Harvard capacity to learn, teach, and to elaborate by Laozi, a contemporary of Buddha: The University, he is a recipient of the Padma memes, including mythologies and people are hard to rule when they have too Shri and Padma Bhushan from the scientific knowledge. -
The State of the Multiverse: the String Landscape, the Cosmological Constant, and the Arrow of Time
The State of the Multiverse: The String Landscape, the Cosmological Constant, and the Arrow of Time Raphael Bousso Center for Theoretical Physics University of California, Berkeley Stephen Hawking: 70th Birthday Conference Cambridge, 6 January 2011 RB & Polchinski, hep-th/0004134; RB, arXiv:1112.3341 The Cosmological Constant Problem The Landscape of String Theory Cosmology: Eternal inflation and the Multiverse The Observed Arrow of Time The Arrow of Time in Monovacuous Theories A Landscape with Two Vacua A Landscape with Four Vacua The String Landscape Magnitude of contributions to the vacuum energy graviton (a) (b) I Vacuum fluctuations: SUSY cutoff: ! 10−64; Planck scale cutoff: ! 1 I Effective potentials for scalars: Electroweak symmetry breaking lowers Λ by approximately (200 GeV)4 ≈ 10−67. The cosmological constant problem −121 I Each known contribution is much larger than 10 (the observational upper bound on jΛj known for decades) I Different contributions can cancel against each other or against ΛEinstein. I But why would they do so to a precision better than 10−121? Why is the vacuum energy so small? 6= 0 Why is the energy of the vacuum so small, and why is it comparable to the matter density in the present era? Recent observations Supernovae/CMB/ Large Scale Structure: Λ ≈ 0:4 × 10−121 Recent observations Supernovae/CMB/ Large Scale Structure: Λ ≈ 0:4 × 10−121 6= 0 Why is the energy of the vacuum so small, and why is it comparable to the matter density in the present era? The Cosmological Constant Problem The Landscape of String Theory Cosmology: Eternal inflation and the Multiverse The Observed Arrow of Time The Arrow of Time in Monovacuous Theories A Landscape with Two Vacua A Landscape with Four Vacua The String Landscape Many ways to make empty space Topology and combinatorics RB & Polchinski (2000) I A six-dimensional manifold contains hundreds of topological cycles. -
The Multiverse: Conjecture, Proof, and Science
The multiverse: conjecture, proof, and science George Ellis Talk at Nicolai Fest Golm 2012 Does the Multiverse Really Exist ? Scientific American: July 2011 1 The idea The idea of a multiverse -- an ensemble of universes or of universe domains – has received increasing attention in cosmology - separate places [Vilenkin, Linde, Guth] - separate times [Smolin, cyclic universes] - the Everett quantum multi-universe: other branches of the wavefunction [Deutsch] - the cosmic landscape of string theory, imbedded in a chaotic cosmology [Susskind] - totally disjoint [Sciama, Tegmark] 2 Our Cosmic Habitat Martin Rees Rees explores the notion that our universe is just a part of a vast ''multiverse,'' or ensemble of universes, in which most of the other universes are lifeless. What we call the laws of nature would then be no more than local bylaws, imposed in the aftermath of our own Big Bang. In this scenario, our cosmic habitat would be a special, possibly unique universe where the prevailing laws of physics allowed life to emerge. 3 Scientific American May 2003 issue COSMOLOGY “Parallel Universes: Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations” By Max Tegmark 4 Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality Parallel Universes and The Deep Laws of the Cosmos 5 Varieties of Multiverse Brian Greene (The Hidden Reality) advocates nine different types of multiverse: 1. Invisible parts of our universe 2. Chaotic inflation 3. Brane worlds 4. Cyclic universes 5. Landscape of string theory 6. Branches of the Quantum mechanics wave function 7. Holographic projections 8. Computer simulations 9. All that can exist must exist – “grandest of all multiverses” They can’t all be true! – they conflict with each other. -
Modified Standard Einstein's Field Equations and the Cosmological
Issue 1 (January) PROGRESS IN PHYSICS Volume 14 (2018) Modified Standard Einstein’s Field Equations and the Cosmological Constant Faisal A. Y. Abdelmohssin IMAM, University of Gezira, P.O. BOX: 526, Wad-Medani, Gezira State, Sudan Sudan Institute for Natural Sciences, P.O. BOX: 3045, Khartoum, Sudan E-mail: [email protected] The standard Einstein’s field equations have been modified by introducing a general function that depends on Ricci’s scalar without a prior assumption of the mathemat- ical form of the function. By demanding that the covariant derivative of the energy- momentum tensor should vanish and with application of Bianchi’s identity a first order ordinary differential equation in the Ricci scalar has emerged. A constant resulting from integrating the differential equation is interpreted as the cosmological constant introduced by Einstein. The form of the function on Ricci’s scalar and the cosmologi- cal constant corresponds to the form of Einstein-Hilbert’s Lagrangian appearing in the gravitational action. On the other hand, when energy-momentum is not conserved, a new modified field equations emerged, one type of these field equations are Rastall’s gravity equations. 1 Introduction term in his standard field equations to represent a kind of “anti ff In the early development of the general theory of relativity, gravity” to balance the e ect of gravitational attractions of Einstein proposed a tensor equation to mathematically de- matter in it. scribe the mutual interaction between matter-energy and Einstein modified his standard equations by introducing spacetime as [13] a term to his standard field equations including a constant which is called the cosmological constant Λ, [7] to become Rab = κTab (1.1) where κ is the Einstein constant, Tab is the energy-momen- 1 Rab − gabR + gabΛ = κTab (1.6) tum, and Rab is the Ricci curvature tensor which represents 2 geometry of the spacetime in presence of energy-momentum. -
Copyrighted Material
ftoc.qrk 5/24/04 1:46 PM Page iii Contents Timeline v de Sitter,Willem 72 Dukas, Helen 74 Introduction 1 E = mc2 76 Eddington, Sir Arthur 79 Absentmindedness 3 Education 82 Anti-Semitism 4 Ehrenfest, Paul 85 Arms Race 8 Einstein, Elsa Löwenthal 88 Atomic Bomb 9 Einstein, Mileva Maric 93 Awards 16 Einstein Field Equations 100 Beauty and Equations 17 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Besso, Michele 18 Argument 101 Black Holes 21 Einstein Ring 106 Bohr, Niels Henrik David 25 Einstein Tower 107 Books about Einstein 30 Einsteinium 108 Born, Max 33 Electrodynamics 108 Bose-Einstein Condensate 34 Ether 110 Brain 36 FBI 113 Brownian Motion 39 Freud, Sigmund 116 Career 41 Friedmann, Alexander 117 Causality 44 Germany 119 Childhood 46 God 124 Children 49 Gravitation 126 Clothes 58 Gravitational Waves 128 CommunismCOPYRIGHTED 59 Grossmann, MATERIAL Marcel 129 Correspondence 62 Hair 131 Cosmological Constant 63 Heisenberg, Werner Karl 132 Cosmology 65 Hidden Variables 137 Curie, Marie 68 Hilbert, David 138 Death 70 Hitler, Adolf 141 iii ftoc.qrk 5/24/04 1:46 PM Page iv iv Contents Inventions 142 Poincaré, Henri 220 Israel 144 Popular Works 222 Japan 146 Positivism 223 Jokes about Einstein 148 Princeton 226 Judaism 149 Quantum Mechanics 230 Kaluza-Klein Theory 151 Reference Frames 237 League of Nations 153 Relativity, General Lemaître, Georges 154 Theory of 239 Lenard, Philipp 156 Relativity, Special Lorentz, Hendrik 158 Theory of 247 Mach, Ernst 161 Religion 255 Mathematics 164 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 258 McCarthyism 166 Russell-Einstein Manifesto 260 Michelson-Morley Experiment 167 Schroedinger, Erwin 261 Millikan, Robert 171 Solvay Conferences 265 Miracle Year 174 Space-Time 267 Monroe, Marilyn 179 Spinoza, Baruch (Benedictus) 268 Mysticism 179 Stark, Johannes 270 Myths and Switzerland 272 Misconceptions 181 Thought Experiments 274 Nazism 184 Time Travel 276 Newton, Isaac 188 Twin Paradox 279 Nobel Prize in Physics 190 Uncertainty Principle 280 Olympia Academy 195 Unified Theory 282 Oppenheimer, J. -
Estimating the Vacuum Energy Density E
Estimating the Vacuum Energy Density E. Margan Estimating the Vacuum Energy Density - an Overview of Possible Scenarios Erik Margan Experimental Particle Physics Department, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1. Introduction There are several different indications that the vacuum energy density should be non-zero, each indication being based either on laboratory experiments or on astronomical observations. These include the Planck’s radiation law, the spontaneous emission of a photon by a particle in an excited state, the Casimir’s effect, the van der Waals’ bonds, the Lamb’s shift, the Davies–Unruh’s effect, the measurements of the apparent luminosity against the spectral red shift of supernovae type Ia, and more. However, attempts to find the way to measure or to calculate the value of the vacuum energy density have all either failed or produced results incompatible with observations or other confirmed theoretical results. Some of those results are theoretically implausible because of certain unrealistic assumptions on which the calculation model is based. And some theoretical results are in conflict with observations, the conflict itself being caused by certain questionable hypotheses on which the theory is based. And the best experimental evidence (the Casimir’s effect) is based on the measurement of the difference of energy density within and outside of the measuring apparatus, thus preventing in principle any numerical assessment of the actual energy density. This article presents an overview of the most important estimation methods. - 1 - Estimating the Vacuum Energy Density E. Margan - 2 - Estimating the Vacuum Energy Density E. Margan 2. Planck’s Theoretical Vacuum Energy Density The energy density of the quantum vacuum fluctuations has been estimated shortly after Max Planck (1900-1901) [1] published his findings of the spectral distribution of the ideal thermodynamic black body radiation and its dependence on the temperature of the radiating black body. -
Cosmic Microwave Background
1 29. Cosmic Microwave Background 29. Cosmic Microwave Background Revised August 2019 by D. Scott (U. of British Columbia) and G.F. Smoot (HKUST; Paris U.; UC Berkeley; LBNL). 29.1 Introduction The energy content in electromagnetic radiation from beyond our Galaxy is dominated by the cosmic microwave background (CMB), discovered in 1965 [1]. The spectrum of the CMB is well described by a blackbody function with T = 2.7255 K. This spectral form is a main supporting pillar of the hot Big Bang model for the Universe. The lack of any observed deviations from a 7 blackbody spectrum constrains physical processes over cosmic history at redshifts z ∼< 10 (see earlier versions of this review). Currently the key CMB observable is the angular variation in temperature (or intensity) corre- lations, and to a growing extent polarization [2–4]. Since the first detection of these anisotropies by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite [5], there has been intense activity to map the sky at increasing levels of sensitivity and angular resolution by ground-based and balloon-borne measurements. These were joined in 2003 by the first results from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)[6], which were improved upon by analyses of data added every 2 years, culminating in the 9-year results [7]. In 2013 we had the first results [8] from the third generation CMB satellite, ESA’s Planck mission [9,10], which were enhanced by results from the 2015 Planck data release [11, 12], and then the final 2018 Planck data release [13, 14]. Additionally, CMB an- isotropies have been extended to smaller angular scales by ground-based experiments, particularly the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) [15] and the South Pole Telescope (SPT) [16]. -
The Cosmological Constant Problem Philippe Brax
The Cosmological constant problem Philippe Brax To cite this version: Philippe Brax. The Cosmological constant problem. Contemporary Physics, Taylor & Francis, 2004, 45, pp.227-236. 10.1080/00107510410001662286. hal-00165345 HAL Id: hal-00165345 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00165345 Submitted on 25 Jul 2007 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. The Cosmological Constant Problem Ph. Brax1a a Service de Physique Th´eorique CEA/DSM/SPhT, Unit´e de recherche associ´ee au CNRS, CEA-Saclay F-91191 Gif/Yvette cedex, France Abstract Observational evidence seems to indicate that the expansion of the universe is currently accelerating. Such an acceleration strongly suggests that the content of the universe is dominated by a non{clustered form of matter, the so{called dark energy. The cosmological constant, introduced by Einstein to reconcile General Relativity with a closed and static Universe, is the most likely candidate for dark energy although other options such as a weakly interacting field, also known as quintessence, have been proposed. The fact that the dark energy density is some one hundred and twenty orders of magnitude lower than the energy scales present in the early universe constitutes the cosmological constant problem. -
Kipac Annual Report 2017
KIPAC ANNUAL REPORT 2017 KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY Contents 2 10 LZ Director 11 3 Deputy Maria Elena Directors Monzani 4 12 BICEP Array SuperCDMS 5 13 Zeeshan Noah Ahmed Kurinisky 6 14 COMAP Athena 7 15 Dongwoo Dan Wilkins Chung Adam Mantz 8 16 LSST Camera Young scientists 9 20 Margaux Lopez Solar eclipse Unless otherwise specified, all photographs credit of KIPAC. 22 Research 28 highlights Blinding it for science 22 EM counterparts 29 to gravity waves An X-ray view into black holes 23 30 Hidden knots of Examining where dark matter planets form 24 32 KIPAC together 34 Publications Galaxy dynamics and dark matter 36 KIPAC members 25 37 Awards, fellowships and doctorates H0LiCOW 38 KIPAC visitors and speakers 26 39 KIPAC alumni Simulating jets 40 Research update: DM Radio 27 South Pole 41 On the cover Telescope Pardon our (cosmic) dust We’re in the midst of exciting times here at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astro- physics and Cosmology. We’ve always managed to stay productive, with contri- butions big and small to a plethora of projects like the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Dark Energy Survey, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, the Gemini Planet Imager and many, many more—not to mention theory and data analysis, simulations, and research with publicly available data. We have no shortage of scientific topics to keep us occupied. But we are currently hard at work building a variety of new experimental instru- ments, and preparing to reap the benefits of some very long-range planning that will keep KIPAC scientists busy studying our universe in almost every wavelength and during almost every major epoch of the evolution of the universe, into the late 2020s and beyond. -
Teleparallel Gravity and Its Modifications
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by UCL Discovery University College London Department of Mathematics PhD Thesis Teleparallel gravity and its modifications Author: Supervisor: Matthew Aaron Wright Christian G. B¨ohmer Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD in Mathematics February 12, 2017 Disclaimer I, Matthew Aaron Wright, confirm that the work presented in this thesis, titled \Teleparallel gravity and its modifications”, is my own. Parts of this thesis are based on published work with co-authors Christian B¨ohmerand Sebastian Bahamonde in the following papers: • \Modified teleparallel theories of gravity", Sebastian Bahamonde, Christian B¨ohmerand Matthew Wright, Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 10, 104042, • \Teleparallel quintessence with a nonminimal coupling to a boundary term", Sebastian Bahamonde and Matthew Wright, Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 084034, • \Conformal transformations in modified teleparallel theories of gravity revis- ited", Matthew Wright, Phys.Rev. D 93 (2016) 10, 103002. These are cited as [1], [2], [3] respectively in the bibliography, and have been included as appendices. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis. Signed: Date: i Abstract The teleparallel equivalent of general relativity is an intriguing alternative formula- tion of general relativity. In this thesis, we examine theories of teleparallel gravity in detail, and explore their relation to a whole spectrum of alternative gravitational models, discussing their position within the hierarchy of Metric Affine Gravity mod- els. Consideration of alternative gravity models is motivated by a discussion of some of the problems of modern day cosmology, with a particular focus on the dark en- ergy problem. -
Dr. Bharat Ratra
Baylor University and CASPER present: Dr. Bharat Ratra Professor of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Kansas State University Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Einstein's Cosmological Constant, and the Accelerating Universe Abstract: Dark energy is the leading candidate for the mechanism that is responsible for causing the cosmological expansion to accelerate. Dr. Ratra wilI describe the astronomical data which persuaded cosmologists that (as yet undetected) dark energy and dark matter are by far the main components of the energy budget of the universe at the present time. He will review how these observations have led to the development of a quantitative "standard" model of cosmology that describes the evolution of the universe from an early epoch of inflation to the complex hierarchy of structure seen today. He will also discuss the basic physics, and the history of ideas, on which this model is based. Dr. Ratra joined Kansas State University in 1996 as an assistant professor of physics. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a doctorate in physics from Stanford University and a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. He works in the areas of cosmology and astroparticle physics. He researches the structure and evolution of the universe. Two of his current principal interests are developing models for the large-scale matter and radiation distributions in the universe and testing these models by comparing predictions to observational data. In 1988, Dr. Ratra and Jim Peebles proposed the first dynamical dark energy model. -
Guide to the David N. Schramm Papers 1960-1998
University of Chicago Library Guide to the David N. Schramm Papers 1960-1998 © 2011 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Acknowledgments 3 Descriptive Summary 3 Information on Use 3 Access 3 Citation 3 Biographical Note 3 Scope Note 5 Related Resources 6 Subject Headings 6 INVENTORY 6 Series I: Correspondence, 1971-1998 6 Subseries I: Major Correspondents, 1971-1997 6 Subseries 2: Curious Letters, 1980-1997 24 Subseries 3: Universities, 1979-1998 24 Subseries 4: Publishers, 1976-1997 25 Series II: Manuscripts and Publications, 1967-1999 28 Subseries 1: Articles, 1967-1999 28 Subseries 2: Stargazing Column, 1980-1998 64 Subseries 3: Books, 1985-1994 65 Subseries 4: Drafts, Proposals and Research Materials, 1980s-1990s 68 Subseries 4: Graphic Material, 1980s-1998 70 Series III: Organizations, Conferences and Awards, 1972-1998 76 Subseries 1: General, 1980-1998 76 Subseries 2: United States Government Organizations and National Academy85 of Science Subseries 3: Awards, 1983-1997 97 Subseries 4: Conferences, 1972-1997 100 Series IV: University Administration, Teaching and Consulting 102 Subseries 1: Consulting 102 Subseries 2: Courses and Lectures 103 Series V: Personal Files, 1973-1996 105 Series VI: Restricted 106 Subseries 1: Letters of Recommendation, 1976-1997 106 Subseries 2: Organizations, 1986 121 Subseries 3: Projects, application and budget materials, 1974-1998 121 Subseries 4: University Administration, 1977-1997 129 Subseries 5: Courses (Student Info), 1982-1994 141 Subseries 6: Laboratories and Observatories, 1983-1997 143 Descriptive Summary Identifier ICU.SPCL.SCHRAMMDN Title Schramm, David N. Papers Date 1960-1998 Size 69 linear feet (138 boxes) Repository Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.