Physics Colloquium, January 3, 2006

Fact and Fiction in Cosmology

Edward L. (Ned) Wright

University of California, Los Angeles

Which of the following statements is true:
(a) Inflation causes the Universe to expand faster than the speed of light,
(b) Objects receding faster than light are invisible,
(c) Redshift is due to the expansion of space & not a Doppler shift,
(d) CMB data show the Universe is flat,
(e) high redshift supernova data rule out supernova evolution,
(f) None of the above.

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4:00 p.m., Physics Research Building (PRB), Room 1080

Reception at 3:45 p.m., Atrium, PRB