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Has Cosmology Been Solved?
Show Notes: Cosmology 5
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Release Date: May 16, 2007
Dr. Michael Turner is one of the figureheads of the modern cosmological scene. In 1998, he coined the term dark energy and published a paper asking the provocative question Is Cosmology Solved? Quite Possibly! In it, he outlined a checklist of seven major issues that need to be addressed in the next decade in order to answer "Yes". A rhetorical exercise, he didn't actually mean cosmology could be solved so easily, it was more of a challenge to the field to take it to the next step (read his Conclusion section for more). So in this interview, about nine years later, we ask him about the status of the seven major issues and then he adds some new questions to the list.
Dr. Turner is one of the nicest people we've ever interviewed. We think one can tell from listening to him.
- His original 1998 paper
- ESA's Planck Mission
- David Schramm obituary in the journal Nature
- Info on the Great Debate in 1998: Cosmology Solved? via NASA
- SDSS
- 2DF Survey
- Large Hadron Collider
- SNAP, a version of the proposed Joint Dark Energy Mission
- Fine Structure Constant via physlink.com
- The Inflationary Universe by Alan Guth
This is the 5th interview in our series of interviews from the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics.