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Suketu Bhavsar Director, Kellogg Honors College Professor of Physics Cal State Polytechnic, Pomona MSU Oct. 1, 2007. The (In)finite Universe. What is “the universe?” Where did it come from? What is its fate? What was there before it? What lies beyond it?. Questions:. Spectra:. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The (In)finite UniverseThe (In)finite Universe
Suketu BhavsarDirector, Kellogg Honors College
Professor of Physics
Cal State Polytechnic, Pomona
MSU Oct. 1, 2007
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Questions:
What is “the universe?”
Where did it come from?
What is its fate?
What was there before it?
What lies beyond it?
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Spectra:
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red shifted lines = moving awayblue shifted lines = moving towards
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red shift and blue shift
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Hubble’s law
*The speed at which a galaxy recedes is proportional to the its distance.
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The Universe is Expanding!
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More questions:
Why is everything moving away from us?
(Are we special …. or do we just have bad breath?)
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the raisin at the “center”
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Even More questions:
Will the universe expand for ever?
What is the universe expanding into?
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Expansion of the universe …two possible fates
Density of matter decides the fate of the universe
A critical density universe just “turns around”
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Does size matter?
..n…..f…..i…..n…..i…..t..
or
finite
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N o b o u n d a r y
boundary
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What lies beyond a finite universe?
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The surface of a sphere is finite but has no boundary!
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Two generic varieties of curved surfaces
Positive Negative
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Can something infinite be bound?
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A negatively curved surface
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Can something infinite at both ends be bound?
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further insights …..
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the ant’s universe …….
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Density of matter determines curvature of space
Space retains its geometry as it expands
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How does this apply to the universe we live in?
• We live in a 3-D universe.
• What gets curved?
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Einstein’s theory of General Relativity
A theory of space and time
Relates gravity to the curvature of space and time, more accurately spacetime
The universe arises from the creation of space at the beginning of time
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Can we know the geometry of our universe?
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The Geometry of the Universe
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The Geometry of the Universe
The geometry of the Universe is flat. This means the geometry you learned in high school applies over the largest distances in the universe.
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How can we explain such incredible fine tuning?
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Inflation
A theory that the universe expanded very rapidly at very early times
Inflation predicts a flat universe
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Structure in the Universe
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Observational results from CMB –kinds of matter in the universe
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The content of the Universe
ordinary matter - 4%.
cold dark matter - 23%
dark energy - 73%. (One possibility is Einstein’s,
“cosmological constant.”)
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The Age of the Universe with New Accuracy
– WMAP data tell us the age of our universe the margin of error is close to 1%...
–The Universe is
13.7 Billion Years Old!
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Recent observations of very distant type Ia supernovae
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What the distant supernovae tell us
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What could make the universe accelerate!??
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Einstein’s “biggest blunder”the cosmological constant
“Even when I am wrong, I am right!”
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