| Monday 20 May 2024 | |
| Events for day: Monday 15 January 2024 |
| 11:00 - 12:30 Weekly Seminar The Shape of Space: Hunting for the Topology of the Universe School ASTRONOMY Measuring the topology of the Universe — its shape — would be a truly remarkable physics accomplishment as we would know the full extent of space and we would map the entire Cosmos. The search for cosmic topology has compelling motives beyond our curiosity about this fundamental property of the Universe. Discovery of non-trivial topology would have enormous implications for the theory of quantum gravity and would require significant rethinking of the earliest moments of cosmic history. Cosmic topology may also, perhaps uniquely, explain the observed anomalous large-angle features in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Observational searche ... |