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Plancks results: Theoretical cosmologists’ perspective
Plancks results: Theoretical cosmologists' perspective Julien Lesgourgues and Jan Hamann, respectively staff and post-doctoral fellows of the TH unit here at CERN, are members of the Planck collaboration, and have contributed to the analysis of the Planck data presented in the series of articles published by collaboration in March. Another staff member of the TH…
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Planck mission releases first cosmology results
Planck mission releases first cosmology results The «Planck» was launched by the European Space Agency aiming at a detailed record of the microwave background radiation, a relic of the primordial plasma filling the universe during the first hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, that is still observable today. ESA’s Planck satellite has been surveying…
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Collecting the pieces of the Infinity Puzzle – An Interview with Frank Close
Collecting the pieces of the Infinity Puzzle – An Interview with Frank Close So what is the Infinity Puzzle about? When quantum electrodynamics was used beyond the simplest approximations it gave nonsense: infinity came as the answer for quantities that have sensible measured values. This problem was solved in 1947, when a way was found…