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Wednesday, September 24th 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: P. James E. Peebles, Princeton University
Subject: The Cosmological Tests
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
The network of tests of the relativistic LCDM big bang cosmology has grown richer and tighter by far than anything I imagined when I got onto this game nearly half a century ago. I will describe why I have at last been convinced that we have a good approximation to reality on the scale of the expanding universe, and I will offer some examples to illustrate my - possibly hopeful -- suspicion that we have not yet completed physical low-redshift cosmology.
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