Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Hubble/Humason 1931
Friedmann Big Bang model 1922
Fritz Zwicky
Coma cluster (Zwicky)
Perseus Cluster
Growth of a cluster
Zeldovich, Shandarin, Einasto 1983
Inflation, Guth 1981
Bubble Universes 1982
Regular Polyhedrons
Regular planar networks
My Westinghouse Science Project
My science fair project
Regular Pseudopolyhedrons
Squares, 6 around a point Divides space into interlocking parts
Honeycomb (Swiss cheese)
Gott, David Weinberg
Stereo views
deLapparent, Geller, Huchra 1986
Great Wall of Geller & Huchra 1989
Park 1990 simulation-bottom
Giovanelli & Haynes observations
CfA observations--spongelike
CfA observations--Vogeley
Bond, Klypin Cosmic Web 1995
Sloan Great Wall-1.37 billion l.y. Great Wall -756 million l.y.
Eastern End Sloan Great Wall galaxies 50x enlarged (Hofstetter)
Millennium Run cosmic web 2005
Observations (blue) Millennium Run simulation (red)
Observational samples
Genus - holes - isolated regions SDSS spongelike 2009
WMAP Cosmic Microwave Background
Planck fluctuations
Acoustic oscillations
Taught by
The Royal Institution