DIPC Colloquium: Computer reconstruction of cosmic history
DIPC Seminars
- Speaker
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Simon White, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
- When
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2018/12/13
13:00 - Place
- Donostia International Physics Center
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Over the last 40 years computer power has increased billion-fold, enabling
ever more detailed recreation of cosmic evolution. This has provided insight
into the material content of our Universe, the formation of the galaxies, and
the emergence of the intricate, web-like structure we see around us today.
Such simulations have shown that most cosmic matter is of a kind unknown on
Earth, and that all structure grew from weak sound waves in the hot, near-
uniform plasma which emerged from the Big Bang.