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From the Big Bang to Dark Energy
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31 hours 
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The University of Tokyo
About From the Big Bang to Dark Energy
We have learned a lot recently about how the Universe evolved in 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang. More than 80% of matter in the Universe is mysterious Dark Matter, which made stars and galaxies to form. The newly discovered Higgs-boson became frozen into the Universe a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang and brought order to the Universe. Yet we still do not know how ordinary matter (atoms) survived against total annihilation by Anti-Matter. The expansion of the Universe started acceleration about 7 billion years ago and the Universe is being ripped apart. The culprit is Dark Energy, a mysterious energy multiplying in vacuum. I will present evidence behind these startling discoveries and discuss what we may learn in the near future.
This course is offered in English.
What You Will Learn?
- How the Universe began with daily life experience, and learn the techniques/findings in modern physics that provide us this understandingBirth of elements and Higgs BosonDark matter and anti-matter—some of the more mysterious sides of the UniverseDark energy, inflation, and the possible fates of our Universe.