Table of contents

• Pre-title
• Title
• big and small
• Milky Way
• Galaxies
• Hubble expansion
• dilute and redshift
• expanding U
• bosons and fermions
• atoms/nucleons
• fermions we know
• bosons we know
• Standard Model
• BBN
• Is OM all there is?
• Lensing
• Cluster lensing
• Mass reconstruction
• Dark Matter
• measure slow-down
• SNe as standard candles
• SNe searching
• accelerating!
• dark energy
• Preposterous Pie
• CC problem
• knowledge/puzzles
• extra dimensions!
• String Theory
• extra dims
• test on earth
• KK DM
• landscape
• environmental selection
• susy
• susy broken
• superpartners
• accelerators
• susy DM
• DM detection
• susy vacuum energy
• introverted
• interactive
• eavesdropping & interrogation
• Conclusion

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Author: Sean Carroll

E-mail: carroll@theory.uchicago.edu