Birth of the Universe
Slide 2
Slide 3
Slide 4
Two Cosmological Facts:
Early Universe: At t<300,000 years, electrons and nuclei are are not bound together in atoms. Light scatters from free electrons.
Slide 7
What is the geometry of the Universe?
Slide 9
Slide 10
Slide 11
Where did large-scale structure (e.g., galaxies, clusters, larger-scale clustering) come from?
Where did large-scale structure (e.g., galaxies, clusters, larger-scale clustering) come from?
Slide 14
Slide 15
Slide 16
Slide 17
Slide 18
Slide 19
Slide 20
Slide 21
Slide 22
Slide 23
Slide 24
Detection of gravitational waves with CMB polarization
Slide 26
Slide 27
Slide 28
Conclusions/Summary