Speaker: Jim Shedlowski, Warren Astronomical Society
Location: Detroit Observatory, UM Central Campus, 7:30pm
In 1998, after a major effort by the Physics and Astronomy communities to determine the effect that this huge increase in the gravity would have on slowing down the expansion of the Universe…it was unexpectedly discovered that yet another entity was influencing Cosmic dynamics,….this time a repulsive force, given the name Dark Energy. Dark Energy was not only counteracting the attractive forces of Gravity, from both regular and dark matter…but it constitutes more than two thirds of the total content of the Universe and is speeding up its expansion.
Jim Shedlowski’s presentation is intended to review and give a historical context of these recent developments, but also to describe the current state of the Standard Model of Cosmology and the turmoil that now exists within it.
The monthly Lowbrow meeting will follow the presentation, and a video of the presentation and the meeting will be posted on YouTube over the weekend.