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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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SUMMARY:Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Mic
 rowave Background 
DESCRIPTION:Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic
  Microwave Background \nProf. Eiichiro Komatsu\n\nThe Cosmic Microwave Bac
 kground (CMB), the fossil light of the BigBang,  is the oldest light that 
 one can ever hope to observe in ourUniverse.  The CMB provides us with a d
 irect image of the Universe whenit was still  an "infant" - 380,000 years 
 old - and has enabled us to obtaina wealth  of cosmological information, s
 uch as the composition, age,geometry, and  history of the Universe. Yet, c
 an we go further and learnabout the  primordial universe, when it was much
  younger than 380,000years old,  perhaps as young as a tiny fraction of a 
 second? If so, thisgives us a  hope to test competing theories about the o
 rigin of theUniverse at ultra  high energies. In this talk I present the r
 esults from theWilkinson  Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite that
  Icontributed, and then  discuss the recent results from the Plancksatelli
 te (in which I am not  involved). Finally, I discuss future prospectson ou
 rquest to probe the  physical condition of the very early Universe.
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