P_E_T_E_R
Aktives Mitglied
The New York Times - New Images Refine View of Infant Universe
Strong coffee, but no internet access ...
The new data largely confirms and refines the picture from a temperature map of the microwaves that Planck scientists, a multinational collaboration led by Jan Tauber of the European Space Agency, produced in 2013, showing the faint irregularities from which gargantuan features like galaxies would grow. Its microwave portrait reveals a universe 13.8 billion years old that is precisely mysterious, composed of 4.9 percent atomic matter, 26.6 percent mysterious dark matter that is not atomic, and 68.5 percent of even more mysterious dark energy, the glib name for whatever it is that seems to be blowing the universe apart.
The result is a resounding victory for a sort of standard model of cosmology that has grown up over the last two decades, said Lyman Page, a Princeton astrophysicist, in a phone call from Ferrara. “What we see is pretty impressive,” he said. “It’s amazing that just six parameters describe the universe.”
Sechs Parameter, welche das Universum beschreiben sollen? Das erinnert mich irgendwie an jene Zeiten, als man aus elastischen Streuversuchen an Protonen den Schluss ziehen konnte, dass diese sich im Rahmen eines optischen Modells perfekt wie schwarze Scheiben verhalten. Schon damals deuchte einem, dass mit diesem Bild etwas nicht stimmen konnte, und so war's denn auch ...
The results that weren't
Strong coffee, but no internet access ...
The new data largely confirms and refines the picture from a temperature map of the microwaves that Planck scientists, a multinational collaboration led by Jan Tauber of the European Space Agency, produced in 2013, showing the faint irregularities from which gargantuan features like galaxies would grow. Its microwave portrait reveals a universe 13.8 billion years old that is precisely mysterious, composed of 4.9 percent atomic matter, 26.6 percent mysterious dark matter that is not atomic, and 68.5 percent of even more mysterious dark energy, the glib name for whatever it is that seems to be blowing the universe apart.
The result is a resounding victory for a sort of standard model of cosmology that has grown up over the last two decades, said Lyman Page, a Princeton astrophysicist, in a phone call from Ferrara. “What we see is pretty impressive,” he said. “It’s amazing that just six parameters describe the universe.”
Sechs Parameter, welche das Universum beschreiben sollen? Das erinnert mich irgendwie an jene Zeiten, als man aus elastischen Streuversuchen an Protonen den Schluss ziehen konnte, dass diese sich im Rahmen eines optischen Modells perfekt wie schwarze Scheiben verhalten. Schon damals deuchte einem, dass mit diesem Bild etwas nicht stimmen konnte, und so war's denn auch ...
The results that weren't