Re: Dark energy/matter

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

Too bad you didn't (couldn't) attend QuarkNet at LBNL a few weeks ago.
Maxim Perelstein's > 2  hour talk, "Cosmology and Particle Physics
theory", was just what you want.

Maybe there is a QN near you?

HOWEVER, you can experience his power point, read his PDF *, and view
the video *:

 http://snap.lbl.gov/teachins/teachins.html

* didn't work on my computer; ppt does.

bc

p.s. Matt Dobbs's was also interesting

Michael N. Monce wrote:

> > On 08/06/2003 09:43 AM, Michael N. Monce wrote:
> >
> >
> > >    What puzzles me is the what I perceive (maybe out of ignorance) as
> > >    a
> > > lack of lot of theorists rushing to work on this.
> > What kind of "lack" are we talking about?
> > I get 870 hits on "dark matter" in the
> > 2002/2003 timeframe at
> >  http://arxiv.org/multi
>
>     I did say I may have missed things due to ignorance.  I also found
> many articles with many proposed models at the above site.  None of which
> were very enlightening.
>
>      What I am hoping for is someone with some expertise in high
> energy/astro to fill me in on the most promising models as to what dark
> matter ( I saw some suggestions of cold neutrinos) and dark energy are.
> For dark energy I saw several papers proposing this or that scaler field,
> etc.  I need someone to explain it terms an experimentalist can
> understand :) i.e. a 'Physics Today' type summary.
>
>
>                             Mike Monce
>                             Connecticut College