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Much ado about nothing: the Rochester Scholar guide to the universe. University of Rochester July 28, 2005 [email protected] http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~manly/main/manlyhome.htm. The intimate relationship between the very big and the very small. Inquiring minds want to know. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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University of RochesterJuly 28, 2005

[email protected]://www.pas.rochester.edu/~manly/main/manlyhome.htm

Much ado about nothing:Much ado about nothing: the Rochester the Rochester Scholar guide to the universeScholar guide to the universe

The intimate relationship between the very big and the

very small

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Inquiring minds want to know ...Inquiring minds want to know ...

Yo! What holds it together?Yo! What holds it together?

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Fermi National Accelerator Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (near Chicago)Laboratory (near Chicago)

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CDFCDF MinosMinos

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Stanford Linear Stanford Linear Accelerator CenterAccelerator Center

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Event display from the SLD Event display from the SLD experiment at SLACexperiment at SLAC

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What forces exist in nature?

What is a force?

How do forces change with energy or temperature?

How has the universe evolved?

How do they interact?

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Force Source Range StrengthGravitation mass infinite 10-39

Electromagnetism Electriccharge

infinite 10-2

Strong nuclear Colorcharge

10-15 m 1

Weak nuclear Weakcharge

10-18 m 10-5

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Mini-Ph.D. – Quantum Mechanics 101 Mini-Ph.D. – Quantum Mechanics 101

Lesson 1:Lesson 1:

Size actually does matter.Size actually does matter.

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Determine the postion and velocity of a car … no problem

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Determine the postion and velocity of a small particle … no problem

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Problem!

Heisenberg uncertainty

principle

Cannot have perfect

knowledge of both the position

and velocity

Heisenberg

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Dear Steve,

Party

relatively hard!

-Al

The fundamental nature of forces: virtual particlesThe fundamental nature of forces: virtual particles

Et h Heisenberg E = mc2 Einstein

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Much ado about NOTHING:Much ado about NOTHING:

Nothing is somethingNothing is something

Nothing has energy Nothing has energy

Nothing interacts with somethingNothing interacts with something

-R. Kolb

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The essence of mass at the quantum levelThe essence of mass at the quantum level(quantum field theory)(quantum field theory)

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On to the very big …

1 Mpc= 1 Megaparsec = 3x1022 m

1 light year = 9x1015 m

Light travels from NYC to San Francisco in 1/100 second …. and it travels 1 Mpc in 3 million years

Telescopes are Telescopes are time machinestime machines

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Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) discovers a surprise in 1929

Galaxies that are further away appear redder

Doppler shift-From webphysics.davidson.edu

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Type Ia SNe from Riess, Press and Kirshner (1996)

Welcome to the “expanding universe”!!

extrapolate back in time find the age of the universe 13 billion

years.

Light travels from NYC to San Francisco in 1/100 second …. and it travels 1 Mpc in 3 million years

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-MSSL astrophysics group

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Cosmic Microwave Background

Penzias and Wilson - 1964

Uniform and isotropic

– in as far as they could measure

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BANG!

TIME

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Very hot, dense primordial soup of fundamental particles

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At 0.000001 second after bang, protons and neutrons form

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At 3 minutes, light nuclei form

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At ~300,000 years, t = 3000 degrees, atoms form and light streams freely

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t=~13 billion years, Janet Jackson has wardrobe malfunction

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Modern accelerators study processes at energies that existed VERY early in the universe

Another form of time travel !

What were forces like at those temperatures?

What types of particles existed?

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How can the universe be so isotropic?How can the universe be so isotropic?

How did the structure (galaxies, clusters of galaxies) arise??How did the structure (galaxies, clusters of galaxies) arise??

Do we know about all of the fundamental particles that exist? Do we know about all of the fundamental particles that exist?

Why 3 families?Why 3 families?

Why is the mass spectrum of fundamental particles as it is?Why is the mass spectrum of fundamental particles as it is?

Why is the universe matter instead of antimatter?Why is the universe matter instead of antimatter?

Many, many missing pieces …Many, many missing pieces …

Recent progress! But new puzzles…-R. Kolb

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We seem to be missing most of the mass in the universe!

-P. Cushman

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Very exciting development in last decade

Observed fluctuations in the CMB temp

WMap data on the temperature fluctuations in the CMB

why structure matters

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Einstein’s field equations: the modern laws of Genesis

-R. Kolb

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time12 billion years

17 billion years

100 billion years

1000 billion years

Million- billion

years

Today

Sun burns out

Hell freezes over

Cubs win World Series

End of universeOne possible future of the universeOne possible future of the universe

-R. Kolb

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“Power spectrum” (size) of temperature fluctuations sensitive to different matter/energy components of the

universe

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M + B + DM +

WMAP composition of the universe

-P. Cushman

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1/20

Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

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Thanks to:

Priscilla Cushman, CDMS, G-2, Univ. of Minnesota

Rocky Kolb, Fermilab and University of Chicago

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

CERN, European Center for Particle Physics

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Davidson University webphysics project

WMAP project

Hubble Space Telescope project

Ned Wright, UCLA

MSSL astrophysics group

Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg, Plank, etc.

And whoever else I forgot to mention …