27 April 2014
The New Universe and the Human Future
Nancy Ellen Abrams & Joel R. Primack Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field - ACS 2.5 meter SDSS 10 meter Keck Telescopes Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe WMAP Cosmology is going through a scientific revolution that is creating humanity’s first picture of the universe that might actually be true..
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In the new scientific picture, we are cosmically central, and we live at a pivotal time. Our Cosmic Address The Modern Scientific each dot Cosmos is a big VOYAGE TO THE VIRGO CLUSTER galaxy ! ! ! ! Sloan Digital Sky Survey Orion VOYAGE TO THE VIRGO CLUSTER Our Cosmic Address The Modern Scientific each dot Cosmos is a big galaxy ! ! ! ! Sloan Digital Sky Survey GALAXIES MAPPED BY THE SLOAN SURVEY Cosmic Horizon (The Big Bang) Cosmic Background Radiation
Cosmic Dark Ages
Bright Galaxies Form Big Galaxies Form
Earth Forms Today
When we look out in space Cosmic we look back Spheres in time… of Time Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field - ACS
This picture is beautiful but misleading, since it only shows about 0.5% of the cosmic density.
The other 99.5% of the universe is invisible. Periodic Table
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stars COSMIC DENSITY PYRAMID DARK MATTER + DARK ENERGY = DOUBLE DARK THEORY Technical Name: Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) Matter Distribution Agrees with Double Dark Theory!
Hlozek et al. 2012 Planck Collaboration: Cosmological parameters
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Data D 2000 Released March 21, 1000 Fig. 10. Planck TT power spectrum. The points in the upper panel show the maximum-likelihood estimates of the primary CMB { Planck+ + 2013 spectrum computed as described in the text for the best-fit foreground and nuisance parameters of the WP highL fit listed in Table 5. The red line shows the best-fit base ⇤CDM spectrum. The lower panel shows the residuals with respect to the theoretical model. The0 error bars are computed from the full covariance matrix, appropriately weighted across each band (see Eqs. 36a and 36b), and include2 beam uncertainties10 and50 uncertainties500 in the foreground1000 model parameters.1500 2000 2500 Agrees with Double Dark Theory! Multipole moment,
Fig. 19. The temperature angular power spectrum of the primary CMB from Planck, showing a precise measurement of seven acoustic peaks, that are well fit by a simple six-parameterTemperature-Polarization⇤CDM theoretical model (the model plotted is the one labelled [Planck+WP+highL]Polarization- in Planck Collaboration XVI (2013)). The shaded area around the best-fit curve represents cosmic variance, including the sky cut used. The errorPolarization bars on individual points also include cosmic variance. The horizontal axis is logarithmic up to ` = 50, and linear beyond. The vertical scale is `(` + 1)Cl/2⇡. The measured spectrum shown here is exactly the same as the one shown in Fig. 1 of Planck Collaboration XVI (2013), but it has been rebinned to show better the low-` region.
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