The Universe, created in
a single cataclysmic explosion know as the Big Bang about
13.7 billion years ago, has been expanding ever since.
Recent astronomical observations have led to precision
measurements of several amazing properties of our Universe.
One of these is that the expansion rate of the
Universe is accelerating rather than slowing down. In
his talk, Liddle will give an overview of our emerging
understanding of the cosmological properties of the Universe,
while explaining that much of the physics underpinning
it has yet to be understood.
Andrew Liddle is the author of about 150 scientific
papers and two textbooks, An Introduction
to Modern Cosmology and Cosmological
Inflation and Large-Scale Structure.
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