Cosmology Solved? Quite Possibly!

Cosmology Solved? Quite Possibly!

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in 1964 by Penzias and Wilson led to the establishment of the hot big-bang cosmological model some ten years later. Discoveries made in 1998 may ultimately have as profound an effect on our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe. Taken at face value, they confirm the basic tenets of Inflation + Cold Dark Matter, a bold an...

Cosmology Solved? Maybe

For two decades the hot big-bang model as been referred to as the standard cosmology – and for good reason. For just as long cosmologists have known that there are fundamental questions that are not answered by the standard cosmology and point to a grander theory. The best candidate for that grander theory is inflation + cold dark matter; it can extend our understanding of the Universe back to ...

IS COSMOLOGY SOLVED? An Astrophysical Cosmologist’s Viewpoint

We have fossil evidence from the thermal background radiation that our universe expanded from a considerably hotter denser state. We have a well defined, testable, and so far quite successful theoretical description of the expansion: the relativistic FriedmannLemâıtre cosmological model. The observational successes of this model are impressive but I think hardly enough for a convincing scientif...

Explorations into Becoming New, Radical, and Quite Possibly Dangerously Progressive within an Aotearoa New Zealand Context

This paper draws on an initiative where we experienced being new, radical, and, from some viewpoints, dangerously progressive at Unitec—a Polytechnic/Institute of Technology in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The initiative was driven by a need to improve student experiences of interdisciplinary learning and teaching, and to develop a common semester for students transitioning to a bachelor degree progr...

Does Elite Competition Inhibit Growth and Delay Maturation in Some Gymnasts? Quite Possibly