Labs For a Lambda Dominated Universe

An effort to explain the acceleration of the universe, and how do we know it, age of the universe and the cosmic microwave background radiation.


 

The accelerating universe is the observation that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerated rate. If this is true (and alarming!), then how do we know it?

How do we know the age of the universe then? And how was it during early stages?  Is this a constant acceleration of rate of expansion? Was there a period in history where the universe didnt expand or exapnded very slowly?

Curious? We are as well! At our lab we work to find answers to these questions and many other interesting facts!

Explore this section of the web site to know more about these questions and possible answers.

  Produced by the Remote Access Astronomy Project,
Experimental Cosmology Group, University of California,
Santa Barbara

 

 

 

   

 

 

Microwave Sky Map

 

Principal Investigators:
 


Jatila van der Veen, Ph.D.

Planck Education and Public Outreach Coordinator,
Physics Department, UCSB

 
   

 

 

Introduction to Cosmology

 

 
 

High Z Supernovae, Type Ia: Evidence for Cosmic Acceleration

   


Philip Lubin, Ph.D.

Professor of Physics,
UCSB Physics Department and Head of the
Experimental Cosmology Lab at UCSB

 

 

 

 

Globular Clusters and the
Age of the Universe

Modeling the Power Spectrum of the CMB

 

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