TTC - Dark Matter - Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe

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Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe

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video lectures

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(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 1272

Taught by Sean Carroll
California Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Harvard University

Summary:

There's more to the universe than meets the eye—a lot more. In recent years scientists have discovered that 95 percent of the contents of the cosmos are invisible to all of our current methods of direct detection. Yet they are definitely there: Something is holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together, and something else is causing space itself to fly apart.

Scientists call these invisible components dark matter and dark energy—"dark" because these phenomena don't emit light, not because we aren't learning more and more about them. Indeed, dark matter and dark energy are the most eagerly studied subjects in astronomy and particle physics today. And for good reason—what could be more exciting than cracking the mystery of the fundamental constituents and overall composition of the universe?


Course Lecture Titles:

1. Fundamental Building Blocks
2. The Smooth, Expanding Universe
3. Space, Time, and Gravity
4. Cosmology in Einstein's Universe
5. Galaxies and Clusters
6. Gravitational Lensing
7. Atoms and Particles
8. The Standard Model of Particle Physics
9. Relic Particles from the Big Bang
10. Primordial Nucleosynthesis
11. The Cosmic Microwave Background
12. Dark Stars and Black Holes
13. WIMPs and Supersymmetry
14. The Accelerating Universe
15. The Geometry of Space
16. Smooth Tension and Acceleration
17. Vacuum Energy
18. Quintessence
19. Was Einstein Right?
20. Inflation
21. Strings and Extra Dimensions
22. Beyond the Observable Universe
23. Future Experiments
24. The Past and Future of the Dark Side

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