物理セミナー

日時: 2009-07-08 15:00 - 16:00
場所: 3 号館 425 号室
会議名: The Cosmic Microwave Background as a Probe of the Very Early Universe
連絡先: ex 4525
講演者: Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu  (University of Texas Austin)
講演言語: 英語
アブストラクト: The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the fossil light of the Big Bang is the oldest light that one can ever hope to observe in our Universe. The CMB provides us with a direct image of the Universe when it was still an "infant" - 380,000 years old - and has enabled us to obtain a wealth of cosmological information, such as the composition, age, geometry, and history of the Universe. Yet, can we go further and learn about the primordial universe, when it was much younger than 380,000 years old, per- haps as young as a tiny fraction of a second? If so, this gives us a hope to test competing theories about the origin of the Uni- verse at ultra high energies. In this talk I review the present status and future prospects on our quest to probe the physical condition of the very early Universe.

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