Transcript Slide 1

GENESIS TIMELINE
Birth of the
Universe,
Space, Time,
??????
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-40
ORIGIN
Origin of
Ordinary
Matter
Cosmic Inflation:
Quantum Seeds
for Galaxies
Birth of Dark Energy?
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-30
-25
-20
Quark
Matter
Disappears
-15
-10
Dark Energy Leads
to Cosmic Speed Up
Formation of
Galaxies from
QM Seeds
Origin of
Dark Matter
Origin of
Chemical
Elements
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1
5
10
15
LOG (time/sec)
Neutrino Experiments, Tevatron,
SLAC B-Factory,
LHC,
Cosmic Underground Lab
CDMSII,
Theory,
Microwave
NLC
Serendipitous Background
Discovery-The
SNAP
Knowledge
Frontier
M.S. Turner, v2
Origin of
He, D, Li
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?
DESTINY
RHIC
SDSS
RIA
Cosmic
Microwave
Background
SNAP
DOE Office of Science Program
Figure Caption
Fig. 2. Deep Connections: Quarks & the Cosmos (courtesy of Michael S. Turner). The
time scale of Fig. 1 is used. The epochs, characterized by their physical
characteristics (above the time line) have consequences for us in our epoch.
Those consequences are being measured by experiments (below the time line)
currently underway or planned. SNAP stands for SuperNova/Acceleration Probe,
an orbiting space telescope with a two meter mirror, and with a wide-field
camera of a billion pixels (a conventional electronic camera might have four
million pixels). SLAC B-factory stands for the Department of Energy, Office of
Science, Stanford Linear Accelerator producing large numbers of B mesons.
Tevatron stands for the proton/anti-proton collider located at the Department of
Energy, Office of Science, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab),
located in Weston, Illinois, outside of Chicago. Currently, this machine is the
world’s highest-energy physics user facility. LHC stands for the Large Hadron
Collider, currently under construction at CERN, the European Organization for
Nuclear Research, located near Geneva, Switzerland. CDMSII stands for
Cryogenic Dark Matter Search. It is a search for the nature of dark matter,
looking for the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP), and is located in the
Soudan mine, near Ely, Minnesota. RHIC stands for Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collider at the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Brookhaven National
Laboratory. SDSS stands for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most ambitious
astronomical survey project ever undertaken, located at Apache Point Observatory,
in New Mexico. RIA stands for the Rare Isotope Accelerator, a proposed project
to probe unstable isotopes with an overabundance of protons or neutrons, and
which tend to decay quickly. It will serve as a roadmap for the creation of the
heavy elements through the furnaces of supernovae.