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From the Big Bang to Dark Energy
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Субтитры доступны на Russian, Romanian
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - From Daily Life to the Big Bang
Understanding the Universe in which we live and how to probe it can begin with simple daily life experiences such as night and day and the four seasons. Starting from these observations, we will take a journey from our local Earth at the present time all the w... - Week 2 - Birth of Elements and Higgs Boson
We are made of chemical elements. So one of the fundamental questions “where do we come from?” leads to another question: “how were elements born?”. This is related to the Higgs Boson, an important particle in answering this question which remained elusive unt... - Week 3 - Dark Matter and Anti-Matter
In this module, we will learn about dark matter and anti-matter -- some of the more mysterious sides of the Universe. We know dark matter played an important role in the formation of stars and galaxies, but much of properties are still unknown to us. In anothe... - Week 4 - Inflation and Dark Energy
At the very beginning, the Universe exponentially expanded during a period known as the cosmic inflation. Recent studies suggested that the Universe has entered into another stage of expansion, considered to be caused by 'mysterious' dark energy. In this modul...
Prerequisite
Instructors
Hitoshi Murayama
MacAdams Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Professor, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study (TODIAS)
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