cosmology
Some of the things I overheard at Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday conference did make me wonder whether I hadn't got the wrong building and stumbled in on a sci-fi convention. "The state of the multiverse". "The Universe is simple but strange". "The future for intelligent life is potentially infinite". And — excuse me — "the Big Bang was just the decay of our parent vacuum"?! |
This is the second part of the lecture given by Astronomer Royal Martin Rees at Stephen Hawkings birthday symposium. |
This is the first part of the lecture given by Astronomer Royal Martin Rees at Stephen Hawkings birthday symposium. |
This is an excerpt from Stephen Hawking's address to his 70th birthday symposium which took place on 8th January 2011 in Cambridge. |
Experiment discovers evidence for dark matter
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The mathematical maps in theoretical physics have been highly successful in guiding our understanding of the universe at the largest and smallest scales. Linking these two scales together is one of the golden goals of theoretical physics. But, at the very edges of our understanding of these fields, one of the most controversial areas of physics lies where these maps merge: the cosmological
constant problem.
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Are the unchanging features of the Universe really unchanging?
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