Center for Cosmological Physics

宇宙物理中心汇集了天文学家和物理学家，实验主义者和理论家，以解决现代宇宙学中最基本的问题。 它建立了一个跨学科的环境来解决跨学科的问题，从而培养了一个理想的氛围，培养新的人才（学生和博士后）和激励教师和其他资深科学家在不同的方向思考。 中心的科学家们将对早期宇宙的残骸进行测量;这些数据将由他们和中心的理论家们进行解释，以重建宇宙最早时刻的条件和定律。过去十年来，宇宙学的实验揭示了在我们的“标准模型”中根本无法理解的现象。“因此，它们构成了探索自然界最深秘密的重要线索。 其中包括宇宙中的大多数物质是“黑暗的”，似乎只在引力作用下相互作用;宇宙中的大多数能量是一种神秘的形式，其动力学是完全未知的;天空中的点显然从未相互接触过，但它们的温度非常精确;还有粒子以远远超出我们所能理解的能量撞击地球。 该中心利用这些现象之间的相互关系，并将通过新的实验和新的见解来解决这些问题。

The Center for Cosmological Physics brings together astronomers andphysicists, experimentalists and theorists, to address the mostfundamental questions in modern cosmology. It establishes aninterdisciplinary environment essential to address the cross-disciplinaryproblems, thereby fostering an ideal climate for nurturing new talent(students and postdocs) and stimulating faculty and other seniorscientists to think in different directions. Measurements of the remnantsof the early universe will be performed by Center scientists; this datawill be interpreted by them and center theorists to reconstruct theconditions and laws in effect at the earliest moments of the Universe.Experiments in Cosmology over the past decade have revealed phenomenawhich are simply not understandable in our "Standard Models." Thus theyconstitute important clues to the deepest secrets of nature. Theseinclude the fact that most of the matter in the Universe is "dark" andappears to only interact gravitationally; that most of the energy in theUniverse is of a mysterious form whose dynamics is totally unknown; thatpoints on the sky which have apparently never been in contact with eachother have the same temperature to very high precision; and that thereare particles striking the Earth with energies well beyond what we canunderstand. The Center exploits the interrelations among these phenomenaand will address them with new experiments and new insights.