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Markus Pössel

Urknall-Fluktuationen: Interview mit George Smoot Teil I

Unser Interview findet in einer sehr inhomogenen Umgebung statt: Am Bodenseeufer vor der Inselhalle atmen wir Luft (Dichte rund 0,001 Gramm pro Kubikzentimeter), lassen unsere Blicke über das Wasser (Dichte rund 1 Gramm pro Kubikzentimeter) und das gegenüberliegende Festland schweifen (irgendwo zwischen 1 und 3 g/cm³). Gerade richtig für mein Interview mit George Smoot (Dichte […]

Alexander Bastidas Fry

CERN, Dark Energy, and Dark Matter

When you throw together six distinguished physicists (David Gross, John Mather, Carlo Rubbia, George Smoot, Gerardus ’t Hooft, and Martinus Veltman) into debate on what CERN will teach us about the dark energy and dark matter you can’t guarantee the same kind harmony that these physicists strive for in their own theories. There was a majority agreement […]

Ashutosh Jogalekar

Pigeon waste, cosmic melodies and noise in scientific communication

There it was, that darned noise again. Nobody could possibly be happy cleaning pigeon droppings. Yet Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were being forced to do it. As good scientists they simply could not avoid it, since they had to discount the role of this "white dielectric substance" in the noise that was plaguing their […]