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SUMMARY:Advanced Studies Gateway at FRIB featuring Katherine Freese - The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark 
DESCRIPTION:
 Advanced Studies Gateway at FRIB featuring Katherine 
 Freese - The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts 
 Dark Matter\n
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 Virtual via Zoom\n
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 Talk abstract: 
 The ordinary atoms that make up the 
 known universe, from our bodies and the air we 
 breathe to the planets and stars, constitute 
 only 5 percent of all matter and energy in 
 the cosmos. The remaining 95 percent is made 
 up of a recipe of 25-percent dark matter and 
 70-percent dark energy, both nonluminous components 
 whose nature remains a mystery. Katherine 
 Freese will recount the stories of the dark 
 matter puzzle, starting with the discoveries 
 of visionary scientists from the 1930s who 
 first proposed its existence, to Vera Rubin 
 in the 1970s whose observations conclusively 
 showed its dominance in galaxies, to the deluge 
 of data today from underground laboratories, 
 satellites in space, and the Large Hadron 
 Collider. Theorists contend that dark matter 
 most likely consists of new fundamental particles; 
 the best candidates include weakly interacting 
 massive particles (WIMPs) and axions. 
 Billions of them pass through our bodies every 
 second without us even realizing it, yet their 
 gravitational pull is capable of whirling 
 stars and gas at breakneck speeds around the 
 centers of galaxies, and bending light from 
 distant bright objects. This talk will overview 
 this cosmic cocktail, including the evidence 
 for the existence of dark matter in galaxies. 
 Many cosmologists believe we are on the 
 verge of solving this mystery and this talk will 
 provide the foundation needed to fully fathom 
 this epochal moment in humankind's quest 
 to understand the universe.\n
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 Register for 
 the event here: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lgqsPHxYQwil6W4neTRlKA\n
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 Price: Free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact email: events@frib.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://frib.msu.edu/gateway/events/talk-katherine-freese.html?pid=5293\n
LOCATION:Zoom - Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
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