The Road to Precision Cosmology (original) (raw)
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Abstract
In the past 50 years, cosmology has gone from a field known for the errors being in the exponents to a precision science. The transformation-powered by ideas, technology, a paradigm shift, and culture change-has revolutionized our understanding of the Universe, with the Lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) paradigm as its crowning achievement. I chronicle the journey of precision cosmology and finish with thoughts about the next cosmological paradigm.
Publication:
Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
Pub Date:
September 2022
DOI:
10.1146/annurev-nucl-111119-041046
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Keywords:
- cosmic microwave background;
- cosmology;
- dark energy;
- dark matter;
- early Universe;
- inflation;
- particle cosmology;
- Lambda CDM;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
E-Print:
Submitted to Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. To appear in volume 32