Our Preposterous Universe


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Table of contents

Title

Outline

Milky Way

Slide 4

Galaxies

Mann

Hubble expansion

Slide 8

Redshift

Slide 10

Homogeneity

Slide 12

What is the universe made of?

Gravity = curvature

Lensing

Cluster lensing

Mass reconstruction

Dark Matter

Spatial Curvature

CMB Fluctuations

Boomerang

Boomerang map

Vacuum energy

earth

Acceleration

SNe Ia

SNe searching

Result: accelerating

Preposterous Pie

Rothko

Pollock

Why is it like that?

Evolving Pie

Inflation

Slide 35

String Theory

Quantum + Gravity

essence of QM

Slide 39

Extra Dimensions

Where does this leave us?

Books

Conclusion

Author: Sean Carroll

E-mail: carroll@theory.uchicago.edu

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