Scientists question our understanding of the universe
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007 @ 20:43:52 UTC
Topic: Science
Cosmologists from around the world will meet at Imperial College London
next week to challenge the theories behind the 'standard model' used to
understand the universe. Speakers at the four-day conference, jointly
organised by Imperial and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and
sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, will cover a wide
range of unanswered questions on how the universe was formed and what
has been happening to it after formation.
The 'Standard Cosmological Model' is the prevailing scientific theory
used to explain how the universe began with the Big Bang, how it has
evolved since, and how the known atoms and molecules of everyday life,
along with the postulated unknowns of the universe - dark matter and
dark energy – interact with each other. Speakers at Imperial's
Outstanding Questions for the Standard Cosmological Model conference
will present an overview of evidence for and against this model, and
will look at how to probe questions that it leaves unaddressed...
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news93793516.html
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