Center for Cosmological Physics

宇宙学物理中心聚集了天文学家和物理学家、实验学家和理论家，以解决现代宇宙学中最基本的问题。它建立了一个对解决跨学科问题至关重要的跨学科环境，从而培养了培养新人才(学生和博士后)的理想环境，并激励教职员工和其他资深科学家从不同的方向思考。对早期宇宙残骸的测量将由中心科学家进行；这些数据将由他们和中心理论家解释，以重建宇宙最早时刻生效的条件和定律。过去十年的宇宙学实验揭示了一些在我们的“标准模型”中根本无法理解的现象。因此，它们构成了了解大自然最深层次秘密的重要线索。其中包括：宇宙中的大多数物质都是“暗的”，似乎只与引力相互作用；宇宙中的大部分能量是一种神秘的形式，其动力学完全未知；天空中显然从未接触过的点具有相同的温度和非常高的精度；以及存在着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，并将以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.