Summary Cosmology Lecture

These are my notes for a 1 hour lecture on the last day of the cosmology course.

FINAL COSMOLOGY LECTURE

Eric V. Linder

1 COSMOLOGY IN MICROCOSM - CMB

Not conventional review of course (run through chapter concepts)

Sum up by example - CMB touching on each

Not just cosmology but science - many groups, observers/theorists

Scientific Method

Realities of Research - work, luck, technology, chats at tea

2 HISTORY OF DISCOVERY

CN, Gamow, Dicke, Bell, Princeton, Dipole, COBE

3 SUMMARY OF MEASUREMENTS - T

OVERHEAD - Spectrum

Emphasize different groups, methods, progress

4 SUMMARY OF MEASUREMENTS - $\Delta T/T$

OVERHEAD - Physics Today cover (dipole and higher)

OVERHEAD - Early 1992 upper limits

OVERHEAD - Current detections

Emphasize different groups, methods, progress

5 PROBE OF EPOCHS

OVERHEAD - Summary of probe epochs

• Isotropy --> Inflation
• Spectrum --> Thermalization Epoch
• Distortion --> $\Delta E/E$
• Anisotropy --> Perturbations, Dark Matter

6 SLIDES

CMB Results

Talk about Transparency of Universe

Multiwavelengths - SLIDES

Neutrino, Gravitational Wave astronomy

7 FUTURE OF COSMOLOGY

Progress and Questions
New Missions

CMB taught us about whole course.

When we collect so many photons and open so many windows, how can the future be other than bright...