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MAKING SENSE OF THE NEW COSMOLOGY

    https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X02013113Cited by:62 (Source: Crossref)

    Over the past three years we have determined the basic features of the Universe — spatially flat; accelerating; comprised of 1/3 a new form of matter, 2/3 a new form of energy, with some ordinary matter and a dash of massive neutrinos; and apparently born from a burst of rapid expansion during which quantum noise was stretched to astrophysical size seeding cosmic structure. The New Cosmology greatly extends the highly successful hot big-bang model. Now we have to make sense of all this: What is the dark matter particle? What is the nature of the dark energy? Why this mixture? How did the matter — antimatter asymmetry arise? What is the underlying cause of inflation (if it indeed occurred)?

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