The End Of Everything
(Astrophysically Speaking)
Katie Mack 2020 523.19 MAC
NO REFERENCES Book notes by Sara Heidmann, also no referenes
- 001 Sun red giant in 5 billion years, engulfing Venus, Earth charred to magma
KL: unless we move it with flyby momentum transfer from Jupiter ... Gregory Laughlin, Don Korycansky, Fred Adams, The Conversation Matteo Ceriotti
- 006 cosmic inflation might happen again (?)
- 009 bouncing neutron in gravity
- 039 theory of inflation, an explanation for thermal uniformity and mass nonuniformity
- 040 inflation until 1e-34 sec, quark era until 1e-6 sec, plasma until 380K years and transparency
- 049 reionization until 1e9 years
- 051 Andromeda approaching 110 km/s, collision in 4e9 years
067 Vera Rubin 1970s evidence -> dark matter
- 080 Cosmological constant 120 orders of magnitude smaller than quantum field theory suggests
- 082 Observable universe (from very early stars, when expansion was less) is 45 billion light years across
- 083 Hubble radius us 14B ly away
- 084 distant supernovae to redshift 4, most distant galaxies redshift 11, cosmic microwave background to redshift 1100
- 087 apparent size of galaxies increases beyond Hubble radius
- 089 Proton decay 1e33 years?
- 097 Matter is 30%, dark energy is 70%
109 equation of state parameter w, if less than -1, doomsday