Dark Energy and the Preposterous Universe

Table of contents

Slide 1

Title

scale factor

Friedmann equation

Matter

Radiation

Dark matter

Cluster lensing

Mass reconstruction

Omega

Dark energy

Effects of DE

CMB

C_l

SNe

Concordance

Pie

Preposterous

Cosmological Constant problem

susy

wilder ideas

Coincidence problem

quickly

What's going on?

True vacuum

Anthropic principle

Quintessence

Dynamics?

w

w < -1?

Coupling?

searches

Oklo

oklo vs. quasars

PGB's

vamps

Was Einstein wrong?

H0 = a0?

Conclusions

Author: Sean Carroll

E-mail: carroll@theory.uchicago.edu

Homepage: http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll/