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Physic Colloquium: Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins), Title: Hubble trouble and the early Universe

Speaker: Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins)
Date: 2/8/2023
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Event Contact: Kelly Darr
12173007821
khdarr@illinois.edu
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Lecture
 

With time, a longstanding tension between the cosmic expansion rate inferred from maps of the large-scale distribution of mass and that obtained from direct measurements has become more significant and less easily attributed to problems with the analyses.  I will review this Hubble tension and discuss ideas for new physics that it has spawned.