PIRSA:12070004

What is the Universe Made Of? The Case for Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Burgess, C. (2012). What is the Universe Made Of? The Case for Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/12070004

Burgess, Cliff. What is the Universe Made Of? The Case for Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Perimeter Institute, Jul. 13, 2012, https://pirsa.org/12070004 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:12070004,
            doi = {},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/12070004},
            author = {Burgess, Cliff},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {What is the Universe Made Of? The Case for Dark Matter and Dark Energy},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2012},
            month = {jul},
            note = {PIRSA:12070004 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Cliff Burgess

McMaster University

Talk number
PIRSA:12070004
Collection
Subject
Abstract
For the first time in human thought it is now
possible to observationally determine how much matter is in the Universe as a
whole. These observations strongly support the “Concordance Model” of Hot Big
Bang Cosmology, and reinforce earlier indications that ordinary matter (atoms,
nuclei and electrons) make up at present at most 4% of the total of the
Universal energy density. The big surprise was that the rest consists of *two*
kinds of unknown forms of matter: the so-called Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
This talk summarizes for non-specialists the various lines of evidence for
their existence, and some of the theoretical ideas which have been proposed to
account for their properties