PDF-the Universe

1 S ongs F or T he I nner L over SAT PATIMOM SHRIM Two mantras from India the first for women to attract a love partner the second for men inviting the feminine Shakti energy of A D Sa. Expanding Universe – consistent w/ a Big Bang?. Olber’s Paradox. Large Scale Structure and relation to Dark Matter. Evidence for the Big Bang. The Cosmic Microwave Background. The abundances of the elements. Homogeneous and uniform cosmic expansion . Hubble constant determines scale factor . Hubble diagram was based on a limited distance scale calibrated by Cepheid variable stars in relatively nearby galaxies. w. here does it end?. Chris North. Cardiff University. The speed of light. c = 299,792,458 m/s. . or 670,616,629 miles per hour. . or 2 million . million. furlongs per fortnight. or ~300,000 km/s. The Milky Way Galaxy. When you look into the hazy band of light across the sky, you are actually looking at our galaxy from the inside. While an awesome sight, you can only truly begin to see it if you get away from city lights on a moonless night. . . Anthony Lasenby. Astrophysics Group. Cavendish Laboratory. Cambridge, UK. a.n.lasenby@mrao.cam.ac.uk. www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~clifford. Overview. Want to share two recent exciting developments. Recent progress in cosmology. Chapter 38. Reminders. Complete last Mallard. -based reading quiz before class on . Thursday (. Ch 39).. I will be sending out last weekly reflection and sample final . on Thursday. . Final exam Thursday, . Flat Earth Theory. Flat Earth Theory. Date: Ancient Times. Scientists: Babylonians, Egyptians. Theory Description: The world is a flat disk, not a sphere. Evidence: None. As early as the 4. th. century BC, scientists and philosophers, such as Aristotle, realized that the Earth was a sphere. Lecture . 11; . May . 21 2013. Previously… on astro-2. In an expanding universe the relationship between redshift and distance depends on the cosmological parameters (i.e. the geometry and expansion of the universe). Why?. Four Lectures by Prof. James Bullock. UC Irvine Physics and Astronomy. Presented by Dennis Silverman. Prof. James . Bullock’s . Education and Honors. Recommended Books and Websites. Rare Earth. Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life. Tu. /. Th. . 12:30-1:45, . Room 221. by Inseok Song. Lecture #1. I am an . exo. -planet hunter!. 1. st. Imaged . Exo-palnetary. system !. … trying to understand the origin of planetary systems. In Pleiades, . The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. . –Kurt Vonnegut. Cosmology. Cosmology is the study of the nature of the universe, how the universe began and how it will end, if it does. There is religious cosmology, and scientific cosmology. The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. . –Kurt Vonnegut. Cosmology. Cosmology is the study of the nature of the universe, how the universe began and how it will end, if it does. There is religious cosmology, and scientific cosmology. The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. . –Kurt Vonnegut. Cosmology. Cosmology is the study of the nature of the universe, how the universe began and how it will end, if it does. There is religious cosmology, and scientific cosmology. If the universe was 1 year old . . .. Science/religion – either/or?. How do we predict the conditions of the early universe?. What are the different eras in the early universe?. What key lines of evidence support the Big Bang model?.