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Has Cosmology Been Solved?

Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Fri 18 May 2007 07:14 PM PDT  

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Has Cosmology Been Solved?

Show Notes: Cosmology 5

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The Apache Point Observatory of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (with Project Director John Peoples in front)
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The Apache Point Observatory of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (with Project Director John Peoples in front)
Dr. Michael Turner
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Dr. Michael Turner

Release Date: May 16, 2007

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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.

This is the 5th interview in our series of interviews from the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics.


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