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LIGO discovered two inspiraling blackoles that emitted gravitational waves as they coalesced
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Observing the Birth of the Universe by Lyman Page
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- 1 DATE: 22 January 2019, 17:00 to
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Observing the Birth of the Universe
- 4 How Big is the Universe?
- 5 Sloan Digital Sky Survey main galaxy survey
- 6 From Hubble
- 7 The Universe is Expanding
- 8 The Universe is Infinite!!. We live in a "Hubble Patch"
- 9 Because the Speed of Light is Finite, Telescopes Are Like Time Macines
- 10 Now Add The Expansion
- 11 The Standard Model of Cosmology
- 12 Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- 13 How Do We Measure the CMB?
- 14 The Measurements at the Heart of the Standard Model
- 15 And at higher resolution...
- 16 "V Band", 61 GHz, 0.5 cm, from WMAP
- 17 Stacked hot spots
- 18 How do we get hot and cold patches?
- 19 Cosmic Paleontology
- 20 Angular Power Spectrum
- 21 Parameters of the Model
- 22 The model raises a lot of questions!
- 23 The Abbreviated Standard Cosmological Model
- 24 The frontier: are there other elements of the model?
- 25 What is a gravitational wave?
- 26 LIGO discovered two inspiraling blackoles that emitted gravitational waves as they coalesced
- 27 We're searching for gravitational waves produced from the extraordinary densities at the birth of the universe.
- 28 Simulation of CMB polarization
- 29 Recent Results
- 30 The Simons Observatory
- 31 The Site
- 32 Q&A
