Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at MIT:

Tuesday, December 6, 2005
2:30 pm
Center for Theoretical Physics Seminar Room
5 Cambridge Center, NE25 Fourth Floor
Refreshments at 2:00, same location

"Acceleration without dark energy"


Rocky Kolb
Fermilab

Abstract:

I will elaborate on the proposal that the observed acceleration of the Universe is the result of the backreaction of cosmological perturbations, rather than the effect of a negative-pressure dark-energy fluid or a modification of general relativity.

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