State of the Universe Address
(Room JW Grand Ballroom 3/4)
04 Jul 18
6:00 PM
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7:15 PM
Everyone knows the Big Bang Theory. I will review and extend these ideas to describe the current state of knowledge about our universe. There are the continuing great mysteries of dark energy and dark matter dominating the cosmos. We, the planets and the stars — the “ordinary matter” — are the dregs, a mere 4 percent of the universe. Recently, in 2016, Einstein's gravitational waves, predicted in 1916, were verified by gravity wave observatories. This new technology will open new windows to the universe. I will describe this and more.